Online:Salamas's Epitaph

Who can recount the tales

of the exiles laid afresh

in coffins claimed from unflinching bones

last resting place for tired flesh?

Here lie weeping men

and women torn from homes

forgotten but not lost

in halls that became their tombs.

Until the last stone is removed

and the prison unsealed

who will sing the mourning hymn

of kings' cruelty revealed?