FOR THE SONS OF MEN 

That night when all the children had lain

She knelt at her flag and began to pray

For She knew that this night they would come

And in the middle of the dark always crept

An enemy that even her shadow now felt

 

That night He saw her flag when she began to kneel

And He saw the shadow of the moon grow pale

And quickly, He knew why his heart began to pound

For soon at the break of the country’s dawn

Death would knock at every house of the sons of men

 

For that would be a dark dawn at a country’s south

When sons of men plundered to silence every mouth

When sons of men found a woman kneeling at her flag

Praying that the Comrades should not stain their hands

But when they killed her, She did not put her flag down

 

And so when His heart would not pound any more

And His eyes could see no one but blood on the earth floor

And when the women and the children had stopped wailing

And He could not feel the pain in his heart biting

And Yes,

When it had all been done, they remained there,

Guns and all

Chanting…