“Don't Cry Alone Without Me”—a tribute to Shaban al-Dalou

originally posted here:


Don't cry alone without me

As a friend of humanity, you cry every day

Crying how you're used as a way people fight with each other

despite all your effort to build a better world?


I was wrong—

I thought you always sided with those doing these injustices

while their victims, stripped away from you

I was afraid that defending those who can't defend themselves will distance me from you


Until it was when one of your very apprentices;

he was on fire!

Turning into dust without knowing who did this to him

And his mother, and many others, all turned to dust!

He was trying to be a forefront of you

Young he was, like me

Burned because of you;

you're being used by some bastards to burn your apprentice


Don't cry alone without me,

because I was wrong, Technology!

When I started to realize—it was too late;

all that's left of him was dust and echoes

his voice became one with the blazing fire

while his fellow apprentice, me;

now regretting how, despite her sprinkles of morality,

at the end of the day, you, Technology,

be a perfect reflection of her indifference 

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