Blood: by Ehab Lotayef

Blood*

By Ehab Lotayef

Montreal January 11, 2011

There’s blood on the sidewalk
Blood on the wall

There’s blood on the pulpit
Blood on the door

There’s blood on the cross and blood on the floor

The scribes and the preachers
have blood on their hands

The landlords
The traders
Have blood on their hands

The sultan,
his cronies,
have blood on their hands

There’s blood on my hands
and there’s blood on yours

Silently watching
Cowardly silent
We blemished our souls

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* For the victims of the Alexandria church bombing on New Year’s Eve