POCKET OF RESISTANCE

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they arrested the dawn and are interrogating the day
(for whom they say) hope is almost gone
morning wanders lost in the wastelands of south lebanon
evening is in hiding, afternoon’s corspe lies on the ground still warm
meanwhile night prepares to hunt down and kill your firstborn

land of the shadow
nation of the valley wall
teaching all that can’t be killed
the tendency to crawl

ra’id walks the path of shame and discontent
expecting no relief from his cia-trained puppet government
he told me how he cried the last time he visited his father and his mother
when asked the reason for his generation’s paralysis by his youngest brother

They’re arresting the panthers, the eagles and the hawks
they’re marching out at gunpoint all those that can walk
those that can’t are left behind to face the brightness in her eyes
a glow they’ve toiled and strived for fifty years to hide

sometimes it feels like it’s all just skimming stones on the water
peoples colliding and colliding with reality before sinking without trace
and should the children ever dare to ask the man the question
the answer for their searching eyes is federal laboratories mace

hold it down, hold it down, make sure you tie it well
’cause you wouldn’t want what’s inside to disturb you in your hell
do your eyes everywhere really not tell you what they see?
or has the deity of calculation blinded you to be the

26 September 1997, Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank;
15 August 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota.