Prayer of Fear: A Poem by Mahmoud Ezzat

. . . Are we winning?
Or in line for slaughter?
Is the question shameful?
Or is the silence worse?
Should we scavenge the spoils?
Or count the corpses?
Did we open the way?
Or is the path destroyed? . . .


Mosireen is an independent media collective in Cairo, Egypt.  For more information: <mosireen.org>; and <twitter.com/mosireen>.  Follow Mahmoud Ezzat on Twitter @mahmoud_Ezzat.  The poem by Ezzat is narrated by Salma Said (follow her on Twitter @salmasaid).




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