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By Manal Ramadan 8/24/02
They tell us to look ahead at the future And to stop referring to the past How can they ask us to do that When we lost so many people so fast?
How could we look to a future That they don’t want us in? How could we just forget about the past? And start new lives again?
How can they tell us to forget the people that we have lost? The homes that they destroyed? How can they tell us to forget the pain Of the many young girls and boys?
We can’t ever forget the grief we have been through Our suffering the world heard before We can’t forget the cry of our children The cries the world tried to ignore.
Can’t they allow our kids To live their dreams? Allow them to see things, That they never have seen?
Will our children be able to sleep Without wakening up or crying in the night, Will they ever be able to step outside their own home Without getting shot, or being in fright?
Why can’t they leave us to live our lives Like they live their own? Why can’t they permit us To live peacefully in our home?
We try to gain back our property Our precious lands, our paradise. We try to make our children live peacefully Live a life that’s safe, a life so nice.
Not a life that we are living, It’s not even a life at all It’s a jail that we are living in Jails where no one hears our calls.
It’s an everlasting torture A nightmare that is endless. A pain we cannot escape That brings our lives to sadness.
They took away all our dreams for our future Brought our lives to sorrow Made us never want to live For another tomorrow.
When we get back our home If that blissful day is soon to come We can all smile once again Because now the torment is gone.
All the martyrs will come down from heaven And together we will rejoice When that day comes, God willing soon That meant the world finally heard our voice!
Don’t ask us to forget the past For that we cannot do We can never forget all the agony That we have been put through.
This nightmare we are living in Will soon all go away And then we finally have our peace
For this we all do pray! God Bless!
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