world on fire
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Could've sworn last night the world stopped turning But here we are, the sun insists 7 a.m. the world is burning All I smell is this faint scent of oud on my wrist 8 a.m. morning coffee unusually bitter Grief on the tongue that sugar can't fix Got a lot to do today, says so right here on my list 9 a.m. and the world is burning My manager wants me to organize some files Looking at emails, sheets and docs, visions of bodies being burned reflected in my eyes 11 a.m. and the world is burning They ask me how I'm doing to break the ice I tell the truth but it gets them on edge A simple "fine" would have sufficed "But we worried about you! no really!" "Think you might need to take some time for your own, cause It seems you may have inappropriately brought some of your conscience with you from home?!" 1 p.m. and the world is burning I make another cup of coffee for the road And wonder what butterfly flapped its wings that I may have a jacket in the cold Could have been born just 200 miles further east Friends wouldn't have called me a friend Wouldn't stop the world cause it's burning Or care this cup of coffee's worth if my life ends 2 p.m. and the world is burning Family's heartbroken but calls me to tone it down Please be careful! And know your place Might not get to eat around these parts if you make a sound Children shouldn't get shelled but you must traverse the eggshells and Speak softly son, watch from the crowd Cause anybody looking like you and loud will get attention and eventually... 3 p.m. and the world is burning We're marching the streets There's real love here You can tell from the grief It's been___days Feels like it all falls on deaf ears But "Freedom within reach" This is knowledge not belief 6 p.m. and the world is burning She texts me are you free Well ain't that the question I say I don't know but I could sure use the company 8 p.m. and the world is burning But these dim lights, the jazz, they do soothe the soul And the warmth of our bodies and the people swaying do make us feel even for a moment whole, but Can we dance while we mourn? Can you laugh while you weep? Sacred and profane, blurred line growing ever so faint and weak, but Who would pass upon a moment of solace? Or dismiss this with the sound of someone else's dreams? We talk for hours and hours till we're reminded It was always God inside these mortal machines And it's been a long night and all we wanted was to kiss Then I see a name up on the wall behind her, hard to miss Then I ask her who it is And she tells me it's a martyr Memory I chose to honor Then I remember 12 a.m. the world's still burning This superposition is strange A love poem is still a love poem if blood spilled on the page 3 a.m. and the world's burning Like billions I lie awake I'm afraid and full of rage Yet with so much clarity despite the haze 7 a.m. and the world is burning I'm not up early, I'm up late Wondering if they kill, the West pays Then how many kids did they kill today?
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Written by: Mohamed Zakaria, Nadine Elashy
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