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Libya dreams

Look at the child with the rifle She's posing for a photo She just doesn't know what it means. Give it three years, and she still won't know. Except now her people,now her country have nowhere to go She's 6 years old with an arms embargo The country is suddenly three now The people inside can't see,the people murdered along its beaches can't see. The people washed ashore can't see. Air strikes fall somewhere distant. Militants front and center Nothing else but to surrender The country's identity is reduced to its language,their colors and the violence around them Never did it experience serenity Fully get the wealth from their oil and luxury Nobody could guess that people could shake and shimmy along the beaches Where the nameless faces appear,dreams dust in their open and clenched fists.
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Libyan
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Dec 2, 2015
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#america#politics#crisis#europe#refugee#libya
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