Dance it Away

I can feel the music inside me

Breaking forth in song

Without bounds or chains, it is free

I can feel it in the grass that grows so long

Music is a part of my soul

It helps me keep my sanity

It brings together my heart and makes it whole

When it has been dashed by humanity

I have seen things no child should see

I have been places no one should go

I have seen humanity

In its ugliest show

My eyes grow dim from the things I carry

I am so young and yet so old

And that shall always be a part of me

Yet maybe one day it shall no longer have a hold on my soul

I have been stripped of everything I once held dear

My life is now lived out in a camp for refugees

My childhood has been taken away from me by fear

We are the one's the world ignores, but whom everyone pities 

Our hearts rise in an endless question to the heavens 

Why did this happen to us? Why does no one stop it?

We are beaten and raped by men 

That devour like a fire when lit 

Did I deserve this Father?

Was I so sinful from my birth 

That You saw fit to take away my sister, my brother?

Why was I given life on this earth?

I do not understand

Why You let these men come into our lives 

They tear, they rip open the land 

And then like bees, with all our treasures, they return to their hives 

Only to come back again, and again 

Do You not have an explanation?

Can You tell me why we are treated this way by men?

Why war and famine have destroyed out nation?

I dance as the sun sets blood red 

All the pain and sorrow I have seen are expressed through my body 

I go were my soul is lead 

And were my heart takes me 

To the river flowing fast across the land 

Down by the villages and past the huts 

Up to the top of the mountains stretching up for the sun's hand 

Weaving through the children playing with their mutt 

Slowly weeping across the bodies on the ground 

Cowering as the bombs and shells go flying in the air 

Being soaked by tears streaming down from the sky to fall on all the mounds 

That the land must bear 

The sun disappears beyond the horizon, yet still the music plays on 

The moon rises and touches the lions were they lay 

Yet still I dance for the feelings that burn in my soul are never gone 

Yet maybe if I stay, and let the world spin on around me, I can dance all the pain away

 By Kalyn Hassoldt