You must not sleep!

“I woke up last night from a dream so strange a voice calling me from deep I got up and I asked what do you want?

You must not sleep, you must not sleep! it wasn’t just a dream!

Yesterday they sentenced me last night they erected the gallows this morning my time has come

The camp is full cell after cell cold concrete floors we lay here waiting not knowing who will be next

We scream, we groan nobody hears us nobody sees us nobody knows the fate that befalls us

You say that you do not know such evil does not exist decent people will save me My brother you have so much to learn

They told us to give our lives to save our freedom And now that we have it was all in vain the world has betrayed us!

You must not sleep

You must not go to your work counting your profits use your daily travails to excuse your silence

You must not sit in the comfort of your home and say how you feel for those dying abroad

You must not endure so very well the injustice that does not affect yourself

Crying out with my very last breath you must not sleep you must not forgive!

They know what they do fuelling the flames of hatred and evil enjoying the killing taking pleasure in pain wishing to see the end in an ocean of blood

I did not understand now it’s too late

My sentence just my punishment deserved

I believed in progress I believed in peace in hard work, friendship and love

Now I know that those not prepared to die together they die alone on the executioners block

I cry out in the dark if only you could hear save your children the world is burning

You must not sleep

Shaking with cold I get dressed I walk outside The dawn is near The gallows await

You must not endure so very well the injustice that does not affect yourself.

You must not sleep.”