No Safety In Sunders

I swear to you, I pledge

I will not mark myself safe

No matter if the skies should fall

Or the earth belch fire around me.

When my brothers die in Damascus

Under jihadi hell bombs

I am not safe.

When my sister's children cry

In the ruins of Gaza, a hard winter night

I am not safe.

When my siblings are broken bodies

In a Baghdad street, just one more car bomb blown by

I am not safe

Or when they're charred ashes in Sanaa

As Saudi planes fill the sky;

I am not safe,

Not when women scream in Mogadishu

And die unknown in Maiduguri.

When they crouch in Donbass cellars

As Nazi shells fall

I am not safe, I cannot walk tall.

When in Kabul they look around the

Wreck of a nation once great

And their children dream of drones

I am not safe,

And I never will be.

Copyright B Purkayastha 2017