EIDA - July

Artwork by Shahryar Video by Bj And I found myself collapsing Terrified beyond a doubt Mir Zafars are masquerading Headlines they never shout Outside, a warfield Sirens and smokescreen Bloodstains on backpacks Suddenly the sky attacks Sound grenades, tear shells Make the rooftop a living hell TV screens like garbage bins And yet somehow you cannot win Kill the kids, blind their friends Pretend like something else happened But tell me how you kill the will? Tell me how do you kill the will? See the wave, it’s turning red now Roll call the dead, we’re all of them now Concrete trembling Slogans unsettling One street, one beat One call, one creed The ghosts from nameless families Forever may they keep haunting me Malnourished faces meant to die By gunshot or by poverty Kill the kids, blind their friends Pretend like something else happened But tell me how you kill the will? Tell me how do you kill the will? Every single minute wasted in bureaucratic lines Every single coin passed over to clear my own files Every threat, every plea dismissed Every propaganda press release Every live round, every swollen eye And every other mass outcry Everything will testify Remember, remember The massacre of July From the hills to the sea We remember everything Call your guns and your kingpins We multiply in the coming spring Kill the kids, blind their friends Pretend like something else happened But tell me how you kill the will? Tell me how do you kill the will I am a নাগরিক Shut your mouth, keep serving me Get more hands and wipe them clean We multiply in the coming spring