Hateful things in human thought Twisted minds this sin have brought Barking dogs pull at the chain Howling shrieks and moans of pain Mothers weep and infants cry Above the gate - ARBEIT MACHT FREI Shuffling feet of broken hearts Pause for families torn apart Wives and children stripped away Screams and cries that cannot sway One by one sent there and here For some the end is very near While others hear the orders barked For brutal labor they were marked The crack of whips and thud of fist The whimpered hope you're on the list Yet labor's toil halts not the end It just delays the captive's friend Released as smoke to float away To rest in peace 'till judgement day The aircraft's roar makes rain of steel The rumbling tank with squeaking wheel The cannon's bark and tongue of flame Cackling guns no man can tame Hateful shouts dehumanize All morals lost to human eyes Torture, torment, words of hate Pain designed to grind and grate Little children weaponized With vacant stares and hollow eyes Mothers, fathers, infants, kids Thrashed and killed as leader bids Allah's name they shout aloud And purify by purge the town They claim to be his army true Do horrid things no saint could do Hate and malice, selfishness Idols finely shaped and dressed Lure distract and lead away Those who stumble on their way To wanton riot, heinous deeds Anything to feed their greed Shattered lives and broken dreams Whimpered cries and shouted screams Calls for vengeance swift and sure Find neither answer nor the cure These horrid sounds assault the ears Tender hearts sprout monstrous tears But hardened souls cannot be moved Though hell itself their deeds reprove Rumbling, thundering waves of sound O'er the earth reverb, rebound Satan's laugh with mortal voice Cackling glee at human's choice Oh what fools these mortal souls who let me in to take control
Interesting use of allusion. I’m wondering if you refer to the child soldiers in Africa in one of the stanzas? It’s a good thing that we know that Satan’s plan will ultimately bĂȘ overcome by the plan of salvation, even though it might sometimes does not look lIke it. Like Elisha, those that are with us are more than those who are against us.
The children referenced could be from any number of conflicts, including Boko Haram, but in this case it was a child sent in as a suicide bomber by its parents who were ISIS fanatics.