Once there was a house here beside the old tree
And people used to come here and walk by the sea
And, man Ada, could cook, they’d come from all over town’
And what Omar didn’t know about growing things didn’t matter anyhow
Now there’s just a hole in the ground
The kids used to play here they’d squawk and twitter like birds
Running and jumping and making up silly new words
Then some would start thinking about football or marriage or school
Or starting a band or farming or acting the fool
Now there’s just a blody red pool
Once there was love here and lovers walked holding hands
They would look into each others eyes and start making plans
But that was a long time ago before the catastrophe came
To steal the light from the sky and pour down the unending rain
Taking joy in a child’s pain
We keep our clothes in a bag we sleep under thin plastic sheets
We search through the rubble, looking for our kin in the streets
I cant rest my back on a wall all day they rattle and shake
Every night I have nightmares that only get worse when I wake
Any comfort we’ve made they just take/break
No time for sweet poetry now, no time for old songs
We hoard up what words we have left to honour the gone
Their eyes are like razors and wire and we are rats in a cage
A gaze blank and pitiless as sun smiles as it prays
The beasts have arisen again
TheyStudied to see how a mind can withstand pointless pain
age blame brave
All buried now under the ground
she was the best cook around
Every night I have nightmares
The walls rattle and shake
The dogs snouts getting closer
Then my nightmares get worse when I wake
Genghis Khan, in Bukhara
Laid it flat, and burnt it down
In Kyiv Darfur and Gaza
Blood still falls/spurts to fill/upon the ground
Genghis Khan
Got things done
from way out east
To the setting sun
The russian steppes
ran red with blood
Most took the knee
To save their young
The mark of Cain
To raise the seed
That grows
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