INDEPENDENCE IN TUNISIA
The people speak
In demonstration
Of protest and grief,
Protest against
Those who violently attempt
To rip the centre
From their nation
With cowardly mass murder
Of innocent visitors
From abroad.
——–
They had come from nations
Throughout the world
From Columbia and Australia
Poland and Italy
Coming to see
The ancient history
Of civilizations
Displayed in mosaic artistry
And presented
In beauty.
——–
The grief of the people
That their nation
Should host
Atrocity
Against those
From the world over
Visiting
In order to learn
And understand.
——–
The perpetrators
Learn only
The utterances
Of demonic ideology
Framed in the words
Of religion
Stolen, rerendered
And shot out
In ugly terror
From the stucatto
Of foreign guns.
——–
The people walk
Soberly along
The central streets of Tunis
They sing no song
But shout ‘No’
To the theft of their religion
And the attempt to steal their nation
They shout
‘We are the Museum!’
‘We are Education.’
——–
Carrying the Crescent
And Star
Of Tunisia
They shout:
‘We will not
Be destroyed –
Our nation will
Continue
In democratic hope’
They shout
And a willing world listens…
– 20 MARCH 2015
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INDEPENDENCE IN TUNISIA
The people speak
In demonstration
Of protest and grief,
Protest against
Those who violently attempt
To rip the centre
From their nation
With cowardly mass murder
Of innocent visitors
From abroad.
——–
They had come from nations
Throughout the world
From Columbia and Australia
Poland and Italy
Coming to see
The ancient history
Of civilizations
Displayed in mosaic artistry
And presented
In beauty.
——–
The grief of the people
That their nation
Should host
Atrocity
Against those
From the world over
Visiting
In order to learn
And understand.
——–
The perpetrators
Learn only
The utterances
Of demonic ideology
Framed in the words
Of religion
Stolen, rerendered
And shot out
In ugly terror
From the stucatto
Of foreign guns.
——–
The people walk
Soberly along
The central streets of Tunis
They sing no song
But shout ‘No’
To the theft of their religion
And the attempt to steal their nation
They shout
‘We are the Museum!’
‘We are Education.’
——–
Carrying the Crescent
And Star
Of Tunisia
They shout:
‘We will not
Be destroyed –
Our nation will
Continue
In democratic hope’
They shout
And a willing world listens…
– 20 MARCH 2015
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