Its just news, another raft or ship
\nUpended, people struggling drowning
\nBodies, lined up on the shore
\nOther unknown, uncared, unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
God, Allah, call Him what you will
\nKnows each, and knows all,
\nThey will be at paradise when we are turned away
\nUs who as “compassionate” ourselves we call…<\/p>\n
Where are the marches for the 700
\nThat’s the numbers lost this time
\nIts not a war that Israel can be blamed for
\nWe all are guilty of this crime!<\/p>\n
We delivered freedom, deposed despots
\nKnowing it all, we toppled regimes
\nFreedom for what, for who, and when?
\nAll we brought was poverty and broken dreams…<\/p>\n
People seek to escape, barques of doom
\nMediterranean waters the tragic stage
\nThe Irish look on silent, who once were the victims
\nOf the coffin ships of the modern age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Its just news, another raft or ship Upended, people struggling drowning Bodies, lined up on the shore Other unknown, uncared, unaccounted for. God, Allah, call Him what you will Knows each, and knows all, They will be at paradise when we are turned away Us who as “compassionate” ourselves we …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,155,102,1304,130],"tags":[1803,1802,1801,1804,556,1800],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-death","category-islam","category-media-2","category-politics","tag-coffin-ships","tag-european-union","tag-immigrants","tag-libya","tag-north-africa","tag-refugees","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-qJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2089,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wake-at-birr\/","url_meta":{"origin":1657,"position":0},"title":"Wake at Birr","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"26th July 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The true and humorous tale, though shocking at the time, of the fiasco of my mothers coffin, at her wake in Birr... 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