Banned in Iran

Attempt the Impossible Task!

So that now blood and fear will rule the land,
Freedom's lost to any passing zephyr,
Since it was only written in the sand...

...excerpted from "Banned in Iran!", by Karl Stuart Kline
written in 2004 when Iran's ruling party was eliminating dissent(ers...) prior to it's elections.

(Written when Iran’s clerics were forcing
any competing politics out of their election
process, essentially becoming a one party
system with totalitarian rule... )

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               Banned in Iran...

Journalists, Politicians and Women,
Anyone who has a voice and would speak
Has either been silenced or been threatened

Their voices become reluctant and meek,
As the Ayatollah becomes supreme,
Religion forcing its’ will on the weak.

Brotherly love is lost and so it seems
Ev’rything is sacrificed for power.
Beneath the surface resentment still teems,

So the Mujahideen will be stronger.
As Iranians see their free speech banned
And the regime turns to rape and torture

So that now blood and fear will rule the land.
Freedom’s lost to any passing zephyr,
Since it was only written in the sand.

                     Karl Stuart Kline, 2/24/04