Wake Up, For Your Own Good

See the bombs falling from the sky like rain
See the smoke curling like so many towers towards the sky
See the crumbling remains of buildings and houses where once people lived and loved and played

See the father crying out as one... two... three of his baby girls being shot down by a monster
Eating chips and chocolates
See the old woman who rushes to help only to be run down by an ambulance
See the neighbour on his donkey cart calling to the poor father with one baby girl in his arms
Only to have his donkey, then himself shot... dead

See the young boy, clutching his dying mother in his arms
See him, helpless and howling, drowning out the sound of his mother’s goodbyes
See the man fleeing from a demolition
Only to have his legs shot and his flattening home toppling on him

See the unborn baby ripped from his mother
Not even given the chance to see this Earth
See the tiny face covered in dirt, its body .......?

See the faces streaked and stained with blood not only their own
Turned black and toxic

Wake up, YOU! Open your eyes to what is happening!

There are those who say that their birth is merely fodder to feed the monster’s raging appetite
There are those who say that this war is not theirs to fight
There are those who say that the monster’s immense strength cannot be beaten, so why try?

Wake up, YOU! When little children and unborn babies are being massacred
without mercy
without sense
The war is no one else’s but ours!

Wake up, Muslims! We are being hunted... killed...
For no other reason but our faith and our belief
Wake up, Muslims! We can end the vile monster
Merely with our unity... OUR UNITY