The ruler of the demons long possessed you!
And gave you a pig’s appetite for land
Thousands of acres!
A fifth of an acre?
Government land meant for stalled projects
Even where hungry men and women could trade
Even a foot of school-land
Even where the hospital was to be put
Even space for the sewage
Even a public beach
Even inheritances honest men left their wives and children
Even the four by four feet where those in shanties sleep
Soon your father, the ruler of demons, will flee!
When you increase taxes on people
To build houses they cannot own
And they do not need
Or you deny children funds for their education
And chase them from the university
Or deny the sick medical care
By killing their medical scheme
So that they must sale their cattle and land
To be treated in your hospital
And you bite your lip
And like your father you lie
And all the people’s representatives you buy
One dark night
Like the Solai dam
People’s anger will overflow
As his wont
The ruler of the demons will flee first
Then your Securitate will remove their balaclavas and flee too
Or join the people!
When your heart is frozen by the ruler of demons
As people blindfolded and stuffed in the boots of speeding Subarus
Cry in pain
When your heart is frozen by the ruler of demons
As people tortured in jails by your Securitate
Cry in pain
When your heart is frozen by the ruler of demons
As families gather mourning those the Securitate has mowed
You will not see when they grow numb!
And start chanting
Timisoara! Timisoara!
As your Securitate are shooting
Now they will not cry
The ruler of the demons will flee!
Oh! The butchery in Qibya, Sabra and Shatila
The rivers of blood that flow daily
From bodies blown-up by bombs
Trapped in the rubble and ruins of homes
In the Gaza Strip and West Bank
And they bomb family members
Seeking to recover bodies for burial
But they do not bomb the crowds of deranged dogs
That leak the blood and tear the flesh
Of thousands of children who were hiding at home
Thousands of sick and elderly men and women bombed in bed
Thousands who can’t run because their legs had been blown off!
But the civilized world hails the legendary courage of Sharon and Netanyahu
No condemnation and prosecution!
But prompt replenishing of stocks
Not with food for the hungry and dying!
Not with medicine for the sick and elderly!
All concentrated in tiny camps
Before they are bombed-out in the next rains
But with the most lethal weaponry!
To enable Israel defend the “civilized world”
Against “terrorists and forces of evil”
Oh! One day!
One day the ruler of the demons will flee!
From the boots of speeding Subarus
You will no longer hear cries for mercy
The crammed criminals will be calm
As you get to the forest by night
To shoot or dismember them into tiny pieces
But why do you stuff dead bodies in sacks?
To carry them again from the forest!
To dump in the quarries where people may find them!
And then you ask, “Am I mad?”
One day, the ruler of the demons will flee!
Oh! That day
Watching on TV from the Spring Palace
You will hear the heavy chants!
Ai! Ai!
Ai! Ai!
And the stamping!
Towards water canons
Which they will not torch
But they will be chanting
Ai! Ai!
Ai! Ai!
Towards askaris with rungus
Who will quickly join the crowd
Or stand aside in awe
Because they will not hurl rocks at them
They will just be chanting
Ai! Ai!
Ai! Ai!
And stamping their feet
And waving the flag
You will be biting your lip
They will be chanting
Ai! Ai!
Ai! Ai!
And stamping their feet
Towards your hooded Securitate
Some of whom will flee
Like the Syrian army
Fleeing from four lepers
Others will continue shooting
Because the ruler of the demons
Will still be holding the trigger hand like de Kock’s
But as each shot rings
The people will go down on their knees
And like mighty sea waves
Rise up chanting
Ai! Ai!
Ai! Ai!
Waving the flag
Or covering those who will have fallen
Then as the magazines dry up!
More Securitate will flee
Others will lay their guns down
And join the crowd
And now the thousands!
Will flow
Chanting
Ai! Ai!
Ai! Ai!
And stamping!
And waving the flag
The ruler of the demons will have fled!
Then they will enter the dreaded gates
Where you will be waiting!
Cursed are the murderers
Because they do not run away!
Or when they do, they don’t run far!
What did the blood, the cries and shadows of your victims do to you?
