‎There lies a land behind the smoke,
‎Where silence screams and hearts are broke
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‎Where lullabies drown in bombs and drones
‎And cradles turn to shattered stones
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‎Babies cry with lips so dry
‎No blood, no milk, no tear left to cry
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‎No schoolbell rings, no hospital stands,
‎Just bones and ruins buried in the sand
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‎They queue for crumbs and bleed for rice
‎A bottle of water, the price of life
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‎Each has lost _ be it a child or spouse
‎a parent, a sibling or a shattered house
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‎Then phosphorus rains on wrecked-out souls
‎To burn their skin to elevate their pains
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‎And we the modern civilized race
‎Watch stage 5 famine take its place
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‎What further war-crimes must I define
‎Palestine bleeds while the world stays blind

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Paghunda Zahid