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[Intro] His young life was as delicate as the wing of a butterfly
And as fragile as a spider's web
For him we cry
Because when he dies
We all do
[Verse 1] Did Ahmed not deserve a life?
Ahmed never hurt a fly
Ahmed never knew the politicians
He was murdered by
Certain times
Ahmed wished that he could be a bird and fly
Beyond the sky
Escape the curse of birth that he was burdened by
Ahmed never grew to let your racism internalise
Water poured from every pore in his corpse
While the nurses cried
Ahmed was a beautiful person like you or I
But are we?..
Ahmed could have been a doctor
Lawyer or an engineer
Could have been a superstar but his life ended here
Guess he was a shooting star
Burn bright and disappear
To some
He seems to represent a menace in this hemisphere
Let me here
Make the very essence of this message clear
He was precious, many die like him every year
Ahmed was a victim of resentment and relentless fear
Now his soul surfs the waves
I wish we could have kept him here
[Hook] The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets)
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul)
They call him Ahmed
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets)
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul)
They call him Ahmed
[Verse 2] Ahmed's ancestors
Introduced to Europe Greek philosophy
Brought with them irrigation
Mathematics and astronomy
Symbolically, irony of this horror isn't lost on me
Trying to get to Europe via Greece
Where he was lost at sea
Ahmed not Achmed, it's Ahmed
He's that dead
Toddler lying lifeless on the beach with his back bent
Arms spread
Reaching the direction that his dad went
If he made it here
Would have been bullied for his accent
He was captured by the ocean
Paralysed and frozen
While these parasites, sat and typed
Analysing clothing
Now for resources we all compete
Beyond the talk of war and peace
And talk of porous border
There is corpses on the shore of Greece
They found a teddy next to where his body was found
The sea swallowed him
Politics has swallowed him now
And those responsible
Ahmed's ghost will follow them now
To the family
All we can say is we are sorry he drowned
Because...
[Hook] The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets)
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul)
They call him Ahmed
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets)
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul)
They call him Ahmed
[Bridge] They say let him drown, let him drown, let him drown
What have you done, don't let him drown, don't let him drown
No what have we become, don't let him drown
No, don't let him drown
And they say ... Let him drown, let him drown, let him drown
What have we done, don't let him drown, don't let him drown
No, what have we become, don't let him drown
Please, don't let him drown
[Verse 3] Ahmed could of been you, and Ahmed could of been me
We need to understand the policies that put him in the sea
We need to understand why it is the beach is full of dying kids
A colonial Metropole people want to reside in
If he did, would he make it or fall to something that's deeper
End up like like Jimmy Mubenga... or Khaled Abu Zarifa
A picture by Javier Bauluz on the beaches of Tarifa
Made me see, some would grieve more if Ahmed was a creature
With four legs, then they would consider him legitimate
Those like him braving barbed wire burning off their finger tips
Balfours alien act, that mentality still exists
Is privilege the difference between an ex-pat and an immigrant?
For, Ama Sumani and Osman Rasul Mohamed
When you take others humanity ... It's only yours that's stunted
Not a swarm ... They're our sisters and brothers, that's the sum of it!
The cockroaches here are in the media and the government
Not the sea
[Hook] The sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets)
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul)
They call him Ahmed
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets)
The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul)
They call him Ahmed
Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by
Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by
Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by
And they all laugh at him...
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
A powerful encomium about the poor little boy who drowned trying to reach safe land...
A powerful piece highlighting the detrimental policies of government's foreign and domestic...
originally posted by: intrptr
None of that matters to the limp little body found on the beach. It wasn't his fault.
All life matters equally, not some more than others. To single out any life and hold it more valuable than others is unjust.
Who upon seeing a little boy drowning isn't going to try and rescue him?
No it was the fault of the man who sired him whom he trusted and called 'father'
Who from a safe situation/country put him in an unsafe situation an unseaworthy
boat.
We live in a world ran by politicians whom seem to be the most Ethically deprived and emotionally void being's among us, there only approach to empathy and morality seem's to be sadly based solely on what they think will get them into power or help them to stay in power and sadly this seem's to be a problem that affect's all nation's.
originally posted by: intrptr
Thats called desperation. But go ahead and downplay refugees plight. You think they all just get into "unsafe" boats for a pleasure cruise?
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: intrptr
Thats called desperation. But go ahead and downplay refugees plight. You think they all just get into "unsafe" boats for a pleasure cruise?
They absolve themselves of their own responsibilities by putting themselves or/and
their children in the 'firing line' forcing others to put themselves in danger making a
rescue.The money they pay to the 'people smugglers' could buy themselves
legitimate ways of travelling.
But they dont want to be in the first safe country ... they want the choice
of country .... that is not desperation.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
So after putting that all together are you able to explain how and why people get so desperate to follow these channels ?
Surely you know what motivation a person has to risk so much ?