Tariq Alkaritty

Come … O! Ye morning sunshine
Calm the night's storm in our hearts
And shine bright rays of hope
On our indigent souls, lost
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The warm sun from afar gently wakes me
I yawn and then briskly greet my people
My neighbor smiles back after saying hi
All the people mix and race to the fields
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I once woke up from a deep slumber
After that faint voice in me grew bold
From a whisper; it morphed into a deafening call
Get up! Arise! It roared like a beast
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I'm man - I bend the law
I can snatch a soul
In its utopian row
How odd - the show
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Ho! Leave not your glass half-full
Guzzle it and drain your groove
And replenish another - once more
This time - in a fancier kingly carafe
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A rash man... toting a gun
Stomps and ruffles the ground
He tramples everything around
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War, is the doom's day trumpet blown!
Its bearers encroaching on, deaden
Any glint of warmth from the soul
Mothers and children plummet into
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Once upon a time,
When love knew -
No bounds and shackles
We dwelt in Eden
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