Palestina
By: Abe Sierra Jr.

 

Soldiers closing ranks

Battle tanks advance in perfect unison

A choir harmonizing hymns of genocide

Filling the belly of the beast
Feeding on the flesh of the Middle East
 
The sounds of bombs boots and bullets

Still (still) echo (echo) through the land (lands)

While gasping children
Still grasp for hope

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With missing hands (oh, damn!)
 

Danger
               Drones
                            Dropping
                                        Death
                                                           Downward

 

Disturbing dynamics
Desolating deserts
While deafening screams fall on deaf ears

Filling the belly of the beast
With the heart of the Middle East

 

And still (still) the sounds of bombs boots and bullets
Echo (echo) through the land (lands)
While fading children
Still reach for the sky
 

With hopeful hands (Amen) 

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