Simply… against Injustice

Subject: Simply… against Injustice Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:31 am

Simply… against Injustice

When there’s nothin’ left but darkness to take away the pain

When there’s nothin’ left to live for in a world that’s gone insane

No comfort can I give ‘n no lies can I tell

Realty’s deceivin’ in the nightmares where I dwell

When bombs fall from a sky of bloodshed torn

When wars rage cold with hatred’s scorn

When hope’s lost and times have changed

When life’s stolen and my mind’s deranged

Heart broken eyes blind with tears

Soul frozen with darkest fears

Ears deafened by screams of agony

World choking in misery

Nothing’s as it seems nothing’s as it was before

No idea what’s next what horror’s in store

Death’s waitin’ and I’m waiting with arms held wide

Will the grave welcome I can’t decide

Bullets tear though heart on fire

I may die but war don’t retire

Murdered in my home with my family

Watching as I die helplessly

All it takes it a second ‘n life’s no more

My blood is spilt by the hands of war

Your hands killed me I name at last

My tormentor’s heart trapped in iron cast

Your silence my sentence to a dawn a screams

The night bringing no comfort of dreams

To a place where fire burns with ice

To a place where I’m trapped ‘n sliced with a knife

To a place there the bombs blow the children away

To a place where my sisters are raped where they lay

To a place where my brothers are tortured and burned

Why tell you when you’ve never been concerned?

Why tell you of the horrors I face each day?

I wouldn’t want my sufferin’ to get in your way

Why tell you when my voice is drowned out by the ignorance you choose?

You know the truth, too afraid of what you’re gonna lose

Stop actin’ like a sheep and stand up for the truth once more

Then you’ll understand why I still speak

Why there’s no strength left to weep

Why there’s nothin’ left ‘cept my mind ‘n faith alight

The one thing you cannot cage no matter what you throw

Is my belief; an understandin’ you can never know

It’s my soul my passion my thoughts my fear

Everything I fight for everything I hold dear

I lied; I have something to live for ‘n always will

Somethin’ my breath can’t wait for nor my pulse stay still

I’m trapped here with no escape, denied the choice to live

For freedom ‘n faith what price won’t I give?

I’m a prisoner of war, in chains and rags and blood, falling as I die

Flying with the wings of justice, rising to the sky

Did you never think to question why?

Tears burn on my eyes and my heart aches with pain I cannot describe

Yet there’s only the medicine of hope and struggle against oppression that I can prescribe

So tell me, for I cannot answer myself, though the answer is clear

How can you stand there, a bystander of injustice?

My blood is on your hands yet you feel no remorse, only hatred ‘n fear

My tears fall yet your eyes are dry

Heart stone cold as you watch me die

You may understand what it’s like yet you don’t speak out against your enemy

If united your voice will be heard, no longer helpless, O silent majority

We all crave peace and justice, so why not sign a treaty of peace?

Why not make it illegal to make guns and bombs, to have no reason for revolution, or change?

No cause means no war, no oppression means no retaliation, love means our heart must rearrange

Realign ourselves as one whole instead of divided, one world, one humanity

Equal in the eyes of God, no wars, no injustice, no poverty… only equality

Speak now so your voice is heard; not a voice of anger, or hatred, or defeat

A Voice of love and logic and compassion, of Change and brotherhood, untainted by lies or conceit

Speak now, or forever remain silent…

Silent not only to your own grave, but to the graves of all the victims of injustice…