Liberate It !

Liberate them. Liberate this. Liberate it...Shackles have wounded the soul, torn it apartChains embedded in wrists, dug into ankles, around heads,like some embedded reporter...Fighting the nightmare only to realize it is real,it happened, it is happening...No delegations à la Kerry visited,No Pelosi came by,No EU took photos...Cover it up, cover it up...Throw a blanket, a cloth,Make it White...as white as snow.No, better, dump them...Mass graves, rivers, anonymous tombs...Who will know ?Who will speak ?Who will testify ?Sand thrown over dunes of blood and tearsOnly the winds and the sky bore witness...And the rest ?Silent as stone,as rock, as gravel, as rubbles...The walls screamed,The trees weptThe pavements wailedThe fields criedThe rivers agonizedThe morgue full, pregnantwithout a whisper... And the rest ?Silent...Silent...Silent.No security Council condemnedNo lawyers filed suitsNo war Crimes warrants were issuedNo convoys arrived...The courts are emptyThe chairs vacant,The judge, invisible...Forgotten, forgotten, forgotten,Hurry up, cover, cover...Hurry up...No need to cover,No need to hide,Take them all out.From dust to dustFrom nothing to nothingness,Vacant, absent...gone.Do you know his name ?Does she have a number ?Tattoos are erased,peeled off with the skinNo Identity,Who will recognize It ?It. Is it an It ?Or a She, maybe a HeOr it is Them ?Them who ?Where is the name?Where is the number?Any fingerprints ?No Sir, just shadowsTake them all out.Liberate ThemLiberate It...

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