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Oath by Blood — Mohsen Moussawi

Oath by Blood

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Oath by Blood

Mohsen Moussawi

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Again the dust of the alleys has turned the colour of blood-red blossom

My people's share of the table has become a longing for water and bread

In the name of your faith and your creed, what blood you have not spilled

At the foot of your throne of power, what bodies you have not hung

You are the one holding the gun, aimed at a people worn out

Look! Your hollow pride has closed off every road to tomorrow

My young man, robbed of hope, has died for the crime of being alive

You are the one who hands down the sentences… tell me! Who carried off your conscience?!

Fear the sigh of the mothers — it is raising a storm

Fear the held-back weeping of these people — it will shake you where you stand

Be ashamed of all this blackness, of these fouled hands

I swear by the blood of that tulip — never… never was it spilled for nothing!

Look into the mirror: do you recognise your own face?

Or behind the mask of power, are you hunting an excuse for tomorrow?

To keep your place today, you have cut the breath from throats

But you, blind to tomorrow… have you not heard our voice?!

My silence has broken now — today I am a mountain of shouting

I am in mourning, but standing; I did not give this soil away…

I did not give it… to your tyranny I did not give it!

Fear the held-back weeping of these people — it will shake you where you stand

Be ashamed of all this blackness, of these fouled hands

I swear by the blood of that tulip — never… never was it spilled for nothing!

Winter goes, in the end…

The blackness falls, petal by petal…

And there will remain upon your face…

only shame… only shame…

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