THE PERSIAN HUNGER STRIKE OF 2016

from Welcome The Stranger by David Benjamin Blower

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In the land from which they ran, not so long ago
There is a custom there among the people on death row
They take a needle and a thread and they sew their mouths shut
And they neither eat not speak until their time is up

Because one the verdict’s given by the powers that be
You ain’t no human being and you have no right to speak

In the land to which we ran for to save our very lives
We thought that our humanity would there be recognised
But they closed their borders shut and ignored us from the start
So now we live in squaller in a camp in northern France

On February 29th they bulldozed half our camp
After running for our lives we lost what little else we had
And as the children wandered homeless in the wind and rain and mud
We took a needle and a thread and we sewed our faces shut

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from Welcome The Stranger, released May 23, 2016

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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