Dedicated to Rohingya refugees of Burma and refugees everywhere
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED | Clarion India
You can look away now
No one left to be saved here
Fields in flame, smoking homes
And bodies everywhere
Nothing left standing or living
Not a thing worth living
It’s all ov’r now
Almost!
We the invisible and the damned
The discarded, ravaged and raped
Have long ceased to exist
This land, the sky and these fields,
home since time immemorial,
For as long as we can remember
Aren’t ours anymore
We belong here no more
Children of a lesser god
Stuck in the netherworld of nations and borders
We exist no more
We the invisible and the damned
Are all but a dead statistic on the world’s conscience
We exist no more
For the blessed world
With all its fine, empty words
and wringing hands.
You can look away now
No one left to be saved here
Nothing left standing or living
Not a thing worth living
It’s all ov’r now
You can look away now