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The soldiers came just before I turned 7 years old my childhood they have taken from me already my father and my brother they have killed, i am told I pray my angry hands be steady With the help of friends and neighbors, some unwitting, some aware I have gathered all the necessary tools While they mock us and laugh at the ones they can scare I smile, pretend I am a fool Oh, give me strength, mother forgive me wash me of my fear let the pain of life's injustices die with me and give my children many peaceful years I learned quickly to smile and wave to every soldier so as not to be questioned like the others like my brother the hatred grew in me every day that I grew older and boiled like the tears of my mother The red wire, to the blue a simple relay last stopwatch timer set to less than half a minute just time to see them scurry before the blast and tired of the fight I will die in it Oh give me strength mother be proud wash me of my fear let the pain of life's injustices die with me and give my children many peaceful years My father's father, and his fathers father and his before lived and worked on this road with their children and their wives and prayed on this ground for the history you stole to give to them what you deem better lives But I have heard the last of the lies and the propaganda in the morning to a sea ... of blood you will wake In the morning I will be a murderer or a martyr depending on ... whose newspaper you take. Jefferson Fox 2011