 For Lebanon
Sara Rahai
August 20, 2006
iranian.com
We are all silenced
By powers beyond God
Powers whose monies in the name of God
Have bought the world
As the world watches the massacre day by day, hour by hour
Picture by picture
Even our loudest screams
Songs
Walks
Are dwarfed by bombs pounding homes, children, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters
We walk to our homes knowing of those displaced
By powers beyond God
Powers that purchased God
The day He was for sale
Under the shadow of olive trees
 Under the scorching sun
And bought by the highest bidders
In their blue suits, white shirts, red ties and hands
In the name of preservation, land, religion,
And in God we trust
We know this will end
Sooner or later
Or maybe not
And those dead will be reduced to numbers
Their stories forever lost
Or maybe not
And those displaced will return
Or maybe not
And the Buyers of God will face their fate
Or maybe not
For we forget
The Buyers write our histories
Or maybe not
July 2006
Sara Rahai,
(Arash Aria)
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