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the helicopters swoop in firing at anything that moves bombs are bursting in air the glorious deafening ring of victory people wearing afghans are scrambling among the rocks dots that don't really exist that factory, we must take it out rockets are screaming across the sky a sudden flash the ground shakes *** I run to the shadow of a broken wall looking for mother we will never have school again i sit down a on a broken sign where is my brother? they will never find me my leg is bleeding i look at it like some foreign thing someone is shooting down the street my heart leaps as i see a giant step into the alley he has a round helmet and a huge gun the enemy they killed my father and my sister what is my life now he runs to another building i get up and grab a rock run out and throw it at him what is my life now i will die like my father go to my family this is a dark place they came to crush us watch our blood run in the streets murderers of my people i run up to the door shouting yelling swearing there are guns shooting inside i have a pointed stick in my hand i open the door he is there the giant lying on the floor in a pool of blood two of my brothers are shouting at me you stupid boy! we almost shot you Ahmed grabs my arm wrenches me out to the street my head is throbbing we are going home mother, please be alive by Adam Love © 2006 |