In utterance;
I protest
the reason I was born.
In utterance,
I protest your reason too.
We define our own reasons.
Let the control machine erode
and rust.
Waft borderless borders;
within;
The dividing line that separates the free
and the slaves;
where strangers come and go
but the cage is never lifted.
Where sticks and stones travel farther,
and idle remains your soul possession;
pocketed,
dispossessed
and disenfranchised.
Standing frozen in the temporal sea,
while global earth spins yonder;
giving birth to a global movement;
devoid of you,
where the shining guards of globalism obstruct your path
and the cage is never lifted.
apartheid in an open prison,
borders without a border,
where freedom is ill defined
and internal struggle
links the spider web without a spider to keep it.
Does the sand have a memory?
Does it remember the tears it soaks?
The blood it seeps, the fingers clawing at it's form.
Will it mourn for me? Caress my hopes and dreams for me,
so that the next person whose foot kisses the sand will think of me.
May it be so...and my heart would live on forever in people's chests.
We are the sea,
we are the blood,
where we live,
we see the flood;
of violence in peace's stead...
let it end;
let it end.
May no more stones be flying;
may no more souls be crying;
may peace return to us again,
in the square of liberation,
recommence the celebration;
let him end;
let him end.
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To the brave anti-government demonstrators of Egypt. Survive to see your oppressor fall.
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