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Just imagine
yourself in such a situation!
Imagine
yourself between the hammer and the anvil
Swimming in mud
and dust; feet to the doors of the abyss.
Imagine one day, a
bomb falls on your palace
And creates a
bloodbath all around;
Imagine that one
day your playground turns into a cemetery;
Where the local
bar becomes a site of desolation and tears.
Imagine the soft
music that caressed your soul disappears
And instead, you
hear the noise of boots and the crackle of Kalashnikovs.
Will you accept to
stay and die or choose to flee to stay alive?
Imagine one
morning, armed executioners arrive at your door,
Hitting you
soundly without sparing your mother, your father and your whole family.
Imagine that under
threat of death
You are forced to
have sex with your own mother;
That with your
eyes you see an ugly duckling deflower your sister of nine years old
Caressing her with
a bayonet.
Imagine one day
that you see people without a heart assaulting a woman who is nine months
pregnant
Will you accept to stay there to see the same people go unpunished and inherit the throne?
Or will you go somewhere else be rid of the trauma to come back with a new spirit?
Will you accept to stay there to see the same people go unpunished and inherit the throne?
Or will you go somewhere else be rid of the trauma to come back with a new spirit?
Imagine one day
you're a victim of tribal conflicts and one morning your whole family
is burned alive;
Imagine that due
to religious belief or because of political affiliations, people are
guillotined and beheaded.
Will you accept to
wait your turn or run to save your life?
Imagine one day
because of your opinions, because of a poem or a song denouncing inequality and
misdeeds of a corrupt regime;
And in the end, the
government pursues you for your disruptions
Running the risk
of disappearing into the wild without leaving a trace
Or being imprisoned
and then being released with poison in your body.
Will you stubbornly
accept this and wait for death or will you flee until the regime changes to return
home with to a country worthy of pride?
Imagine a sudden
situation arises and steals all your wealth to make you a little beggar.
If it happened to
others, it can happen to you too.
Those who mourn
today laughed like you yesterday!
Those who beg today were rich like you yesterday!
Those who die of hunger today threw food in the trash like you yesterday!
Those who sleep outside today had a comfortable home like you yesterday!
But from the summit where they were, the lightning of the human wickedness reached them and buried them in the margins of society!
Those who beg today were rich like you yesterday!
Those who die of hunger today threw food in the trash like you yesterday!
Those who sleep outside today had a comfortable home like you yesterday!
But from the summit where they were, the lightning of the human wickedness reached them and buried them in the margins of society!
Just imagine
yourself in such a situation!
