“Don't Cry Alone Without Me”—a tribute to Shaban al-Dalou
”Don't Cry Alone Without Me”—a tribute to Sha'ban Al-Dalou
— rey (@reysdynamics) October 22, 2024
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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