What If It Were You?: A Collection of Human Rights Poetry
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What If It Were You? - Elizabeth Arif-Fear
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What If It Were You?
As the sun rises,
As the new day awakens,
There’s no morning cheer,
No blissful glowing sky,
No bright new day of life, hope and possibility.
No, as the sun rises,
So do the bombs,
The shells,
And the bullets.
As the sun rises,
So do the screams and the heartbroken cries
Of a mother whose baby lies lifeless in her arms,
Of the orphaned child whose hopes and dreams are snatched away so cruelly in a single second,
Of a husband whose heart has been twisted, crushed and shattered into a million pieces…
No, no blissful glowing sky,
No hopes,
No dreams,
No possibilities,
No cheer.
Instead, there lies a bloody cursed battlefield
Where the streets cry out with waves of blood,
Where the walls crumble with sorrow and fear,
Where the earth knows nothing but death and destruction.
No, instead here lies a blazing battlefield a million miles away…
A million miles away from your shores,
A million miles away from your doorstep,
A million miles away from you.
But what if it were you?
What if it were your mother,
Your child,
Your soul,
Your heart,
Your everything?
What if it were you?
What if it wasn’t them,
What if it wasn’t the other
,
The stranger
,
The foreigner
?
No…
What if it were you…?
I Am a Woman
I am a woman.
I’m equal in worth – or so they state,
Equal in dignity and rights – though late.
But am I equal as you shut me from view?
When your voice so loudly silences the few?
When you cut my flesh to safeguard