Show Me Light Poem by Ragy Sandid

If you see them in lines
Waiting for bread
At 5 am, the child on the shoulder
Not in his bed
What do you tell them instead?

SHOW ME LIGHT

If you feel the murder
But don't hear the thunder
Nor see for lightning a thread
What's there to be said?

SHOW ME LIGHT

If you know that there's a war
And for war there's a spoil
Can you say who is it for?
When the spill is blood and oil
What can you say to the dead?

SHOW ME LIGHT

Then after all that's been said
And history's been well-read
And everyone's been light-led

Where is your soul?
Where is your heart?
Where is your head?

Can you carry the child
From the shoulder
And put him in his bed?

Can you console the grieving?
The sighs they're heaving
And say 'sorry, we're leaving'?

Can you match the number of bread
Against the number of living-dead
Such as widows, orphans and victims
Who never came to your bed?

If you look back in anger
And deny the murder
Maybe you and I can share
One answer

But I, one man, sighed ahead

SHOW ME LIGHT