FREEDOM WILL COME
When the choppers circles the sky
  We look at each other 
  This for many of us, 
  Our last goodbye! 
  With a force 
  My earth it shook 
  My loved ones lives it took. 
  
  The red 
  For you a rose it represent 
  For me, 
  Blood of those who are now absent. 
  
  My world is different to yours 
  Our hearts are anxious over death. 
  Who is next? 
  I am a child... Alone 
  Screaming from rock to rubble 
  Looking at my people 
  experiencing deaths that are brutal. 
  I am lost, 
  In a land that is my own. 
  
  I recall my father ;
  Smiling and playing with me, 
  Before he could lean over to kiss my forehead, 
  In seconds he was dead. 
  We have to leave and hurry. 
  When all clears up, 
  For their bodies we will come. 
  Screaming and crying 
  To the Lord above! 
  '' Grant us Freedom, Grant us Love!! '' 
  
  My brother wrapped his arms
  around myself and my blind, pregnant mum. 
  As if to say 
  '' all is better. He(my abi) is out of harm '' 
  My tears rolled down my cheeks, 
  My knees shaking in fear, 
  My heart heavy and hard. 
  I looked at up at my mum, 
  Her face drenched in blood! 
  As we running in the street, 
  With thousands 
  Just like us, 
  My brother tells us to move on
  We will meet up soon. 
  I latched at his neck as he bent down, 
  He looked me in eyes 
  And took my face in his dusty soft palms. 
  '' keep calm my angel,
  I will see you soon, if Allah wills, 
  Or either in the beautiful paradise. '' 
  
  Those words soothed me
  For beautiful I have never seen! 
  He kissed my mum
  between her brows and
  From that day on 
  My big brother was gone! 
  
  More and more bloodshed, bombings 
  And tradegy 
  Comes our way, 
  This nightmare 
  We can't escape for
  one second or minute 
  If we wish to catch our breath
  Night and Day 
  It goes on, 
  To our Rabb we pray
  Hoping this hardship 
  Goes away! 
  
  Mother says 
  '' through all this, 
  Never cry 
  Ask why or pine! 
  For this Duniya is never mine! 
  A land like ours, 
  So Precious we will never find!. 
  A land that tasted my blood, 
  Counts on me, 
  To be free! 
  For it
  I must willingly sacrifice 
  For after hardship is ease, 
  Our Lord we must please! 
  And he will show us his mercy, 
  Not every soul gets paradise that easy '' 
  
  Lives go second by second 
  In front of my eyes. 
  In hundreds and thousands 
  They depart, 
  To receive the key 
  To their castle in paradise. 
  
  To our door less shelter men intrude, 
  Then I wake up under a roof. 
  I look around,
my friend I see 
  next to me 
on the hospital bed, 
  With her baby brother in her arms, 
  This little baby 
  Screaming in pain and agony. 
  With a blood soaked bandage around his head.
  I smiled at her and asked her
  'where's your mum and dad? '
  She returned the smile 
  And said
  ' they are dead'! 
  
  I looked around me 
  One by one
  Bodies are being wrapped 
  And ready for burial, 
  My world is filled with comosion! 
  Some have holes through
  Their heads and chest! 
  Some disfigured and burnt, 
  Now all at a peaceful rest! 
  As the bodies came in
  I see, 
  A face that looks just like me, 
  it's my Ummi. 
  
  I then remember :
  Men intruding our door less shelter 
  Tall and fearless 
  With boots and guns! 
  They kicked my mum 
  And slit her tummy 
  When I ran to help her
  They shot at me. 
  
  Now here I am 
  Seeing my mothers
  Kafan getting done. 
  I sat up 
  To get to my feet, 
  But now have none! 
  
  Allah hu Akbar! 
  To Allah I screamed 
  Alone and helpless I feel! 
  
  Bloodshed 
  Bombing 
  And brutal murders. 
  That how my life goes on! 
  Now I am one of those that can't run! 
  
  I was four,
  When my father was no more, 
  Now I am eight
  And my entire family is late. 
  I also wonder how your life must b?
  To my country 
  I know freedom we shall see! 
  AMEEN 
 
 
