"مغ سلام"

Tack!

silence is a fleeting notion
tossed around in the heads
of the rich and lucky
those of us or them perhaps
who don't have to stay here
when the shooting starts

Tack Tack Tack!

there it goes again
distant relatives
if tongues are to be taken
but yet it's unclear
judgments on the past
or fear of the future

Tack!

we can't be allowed
to live here they say
but who are they to tell us
there are no civilians here
or there, but
when blow comes to blow
we'll see whose god is better

Tack Tack Tack Tack!

for now, there's still the option
to finish all of this
but we're told to wait
just don't be hasty
under skys grayed
by flashing points of death
we're running low on generations