BREAKING NEWS: Live from the mind of an Arab leader

we have no shame

all we do is turn around and point fingers to blame

we blame our own brothers and sisters, just to please our masters

look at us - we have become couch potatoes 

sitting in front of our TVs watching genocide take place  

clearly we're all dead inside 

holding meetings instead of saving the innocent lives we see die every day

we're just stalling until we get our next order

should we even think we have a say? 

who the hell are they to tell us what to say? 

it's all a game to them anyway 

they're all in on it 

it's just a matter of who wants to come out and play

they watch and wait until it's time to reveal who will save the day

then they decide which one of us will be the hero 

but if you ask me, productivity on our part throughout this war was a plain ol' zero 

we try to convince ourselves by saying: 

just let things go according to plan. no one has to know. 

we can't do anything. 

the world already knows we're the weak ones.

what are we going to change now? it's too late. 

let us remain silent. let us hold on to our aid. 

as if this aid has done anything to our countries. 

they make us think it's better to stay afraid.

don't we still have families sleeping on sidewalks and hungry children begging on streets?

isn't that the same aid that has led our people to poverty by taking every resource we've got and made third world countries out of us? hold on to what exactly? 

stop hiding behind excuses and come out and say it. 

we are cowards. we watch our own get killed before our eyes and

hand our enemies more weapons to get rid of the rest. 

we are cowards. we show no shame. 

we've allowed them to turn our hearts into stone.

we're trained to go blind, deaf and mute when anything out of the plan happens until 

we get a script from our masters telling us what to say, how to say it and

when to show face. 

yes, we are the real cowards in this. 

we see our neighbors burying their own children and stay up late to watch more of

it on TV.

where has my heart gone?

i can hear it beating but it's like it's not there anymore. 

we shed no tears when we see corpses piled up, one on top of the other

houses collapse on families in the middle of the night and we see it happening and do nothing about it. absolutely nothing to stop it. 

their blood has colored the soil with a red so bright that cries out for help and what are we doing? watching. 

we're flipping through channels, listening to the same piece of news in more than one language. 

like it takes more than one look at a child's dead body to make us ask them to stop.

to stand up to them and say we've had enough. 

they're not being fair and we know it but we still choose to walk away and stick to the play.

the world is protesting, but what has it done so far to the genocide we see on the news every day? 

obviously nothing will faze this enemy. they'll stop when they feel like it. 

what've they got to lose? we're helping them walk all over us by shutting the hell up. 

do we even dare tell them to stop? they won't listen to us. 

we continue to whisper threats in our heads and pretend they can hear them. who are we kidding? 

the entire world knows - we've embarrassed our people, our families, and our children.

why are we letting them control us like that?

we are the cowards of this world - we sit around, wait for orders from our masters. 

the masters who give us so-called "aid", and take from us so much more - 

the ones who have successfully turned us into the cowards we are today. 

the ones who have turned us against our own brothers and sisters. 

we wait, we watch, until they decide what we do next. 

and although we give them so much more than we take,

we still wait for their orders to move us around. 

our land is their board game and we are their players. 

shame on them.