Peace Be Still

Hear the sound of broken, wounded souls crying in the night

Peace be still, oh my brother, peace be still

Feel the emptiness of despair calling forth to end this fight

Peace be still, oh my brother, peace be still

See the flash of thunder blazing through the smoky skies

My mother's home has turned to rubble right before my eyes

Why have they come to hurt us and to terrorize

I did not do this wrongful deed to be penalized

Where is my father and my sister; have they gone away

I'm searching and I'm crying and no one will say

What right have they to disrupt our lives; just who are they

To judge a nation out of angst and ignorance

Over the ones, who in the name of Allah, began this violence

Peace be still, oh my brother, peace be still

I see you lying broken, wounded, bleeding, crying peace be still . . .