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Winter and Compunction |
To whom do we initially affiliate |
With whom do we really associate |
We are missing such a common aim |
We adhere to nothing. What a shame |
Completely adrift, we’re made for surrender |
Made to bow low to a lower pretender |
Yielding up every thing we’ve been given |
Living with the long odds of being forgiven |
Of no avail boastful of our past brave |
Still cheering the one in the grave |
Who could ever become greater |
We marched with him as leader. |
Feeling rather hanged for losing face |
Consent whole to scandal and disgrace |
That apparently came to our doors |
With a mere scaring out of force |
Holy precincts clearly violated |
Arab dignity deeply insulted |
They vanished like a mist |
Not a nightmare or a jest |
Shall we stand up afresh ? |
Wrestle those now poised to tarnish |
And confronting peril lain |
Elimination negligence prove vain |
Will spring come to us again |
Will Arabness rid us of pain? |
To protect dignity violated |
To restore land invaded |
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BY/Mohammad Noaman Al-hakimi |
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