Defiant Syrians Speaking Out About 1982 Killings
I . 1982
The walls have ears
For many years
We would not speak of it
As if lips sewn shut ,
Tongues ripped from their roots,
Wordless beasts of burden.
Streets emptied of our fathers
Brothers and uncles pulled from their homes
Husbands dragged away, disappeared.
40,000 vanish
Voiceless, we grieve
II. 2011
Red graffiti drips from school house walls:
"Freedom, freedom and freedom, only."
As paint dried
Boys rounded up, beaten, raped.
Parents searching for sons told, “Forget that you have these kids. Go and make other ones.”
And if they refused,
“Bring us your wives, and we will make children for you.”
III.
Raw screams rip through parched mouths
Suppressed words escape from clenched teeth
Riots in the roads
Fists face machine guns
Tanks and bullets will not silence us again
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