Sashi's Space
oh……to be at the beachArchive for April, 2009
Because I can
Don’t look to me
I have no answers
No magic wand
To make things right
No words that can heal
All the wounds you carry around
crouching, as if, you can feel it
pushing you down
I can instead hold your hand
When you feel like
Things aren’t going your way
And listen
To all the pain that pours from you
As if the wounds were my own
And hold you
Till the pain has eased
And you can smile
And love you
Because I can
Sashikala Premawardhane
Run!
Run brother run
Leave the guns behind
the madman
his cyanide
and his gang of murderers
Run sister run
Let them fight their battle
Your children are your own
Not theirs to
Train and mould
Into killing machines
Run brother run
Make your weary way
Across the lagoon
Sri Lanka waits
Patiently for the arrival
Of her children
Taken from her by force
Run sister run
And we run with you
To safety
And you will see
For yourself what the truth really is
30 years of violence
will end today
so my friend
run!
Sashikala Premawardhane
