Red

It burns me when I see you fall

It kills me when you stall

A river of tears flow when I see you bathe in blood

When fire rains down from the sky

It burns me when I see you burn

When blood spills on roads that are dry

It cuts me through when I see bodies burn

Oh LORD, what have I done

The home I grew in

The garden I played in

Those flowerbeds I once watered

Are now they nothing more than

A house more like a ruin from past

A flowerbed home to thorns, alas!

A garden that once housed green grass

But now grass has turned red.

I cry like an orphan

They've taken everything

I saw them helplessly taking everything

I saw them burning my house

I saw them slaughtering my brothers and sisters like scapegoats

And painted my garden with their blood

I sit down

Helplessly I stare and ask

Why me??

Then I listen

Don't cry son

Its been my fate written.

When the young fall

When respect for women is nowhere at all

And the integrity of men stall

Universe witnesses

A nation's fall..