Famine is dark

On an empty stomach

There there, we are

Listening to you

In the morning

We look around

But there is nothing

Under the burning sun

There there, we are

Thinking of you  

We rush to aid

But lose both of you

Shot in the back   

I sit here

And my eyes close

There there,

Can you hear us?

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Dreaming of leaving

       This rock above my

             Head

Dreaming of leaving

The thought you are dead

Dreaming of leaving

Going back to when I

played here, running up

the path mama mama

kissing your sweet forehead

now motionless and

       cold

Dreaming of leaving

                                 Not wishing to go

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And so it goes

On

People protest

Against dead bodies

“They’re all terrorists

each and every one”

He says, they say

And so it goes on

The people are lost

Picking through rubble

Discovering their loved ones

Dead clothes

But the truth is being hidden

Sanitised by the news

The killing is not so awful

They plead

And so...

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What now, what is evil?

I’m sure we can agree

if killing just one child is awful,

thousands more must be

evil’s outright apogee.

No problem pegging evil.

But how to deal with evil?

Find the men (we know

it’s mainly men). Pronounce those people

lowest of the low.

Blazon what they did, and show

those men to be pure evil.

Now, certain who is evil,

you’...

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There

  I’m not there

And neither are you

But we have all danced at festivals

Walked down the streets

Cooked food in our homes

I’m not there

                        And neither are they now…

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