To Mohamed ‘Mo’ Nabbous A voice echoed in dawn Struggling for truth Calling for fear to retreat A face from the screen Promising us the dream I hear you I see your smile in our eyes Reach to your pain Hold to a thread of light An image of the child to be Sitting on edges of heaven Free forever, never to fade Recite his hymn “I am not afraid…!” Never will we lose the battle Rise my friend My comrade My brother Rise and roar the voice of freedom You will never die Will never lose the battle

The blood cries for a land where the sun walks the sands Playful with joys of freedom.. The chants rise to the heavens of the free I kiss your faces, Full of life never to die, I cuddle your dreams of love stories, Children to be, I write your names on the face of time And nothing will be spared A drop of rain, Water in the stream, Dust from the south And a sacred sadness in the night of the free I reach a finger into his wound, I will never doubt, I will never know fear, A smile […]