If We Can Poem by Bob Green

handcuffed and blindfolded
and taken to an unknown location
handcuffed and blindfolded
hooded lost and hidden
privacy of torment
wasting lovely kind
old men small girls
their brothers and their sons
tempted to a bullet
Goliath killing David
for stones thrown not at flesh
intending State and finding steel
behind which angry soldiers
take time to conquer children
breaking mother’s souls
in Bethlehem and Nablus

handcuffed and blindfolded
and taken to an unknown location
an enterprise unnamed
ferocity unbound
by decency or sloth
handcuffed and blindfolded
you are not unknown
we think of you
we see your eyes
we want you back
we love you still
we wont forget
we want to find you
and to free you
and to hold you
if we can