SHAIMAA AL-SABBAGH
"I am the girl banned from love in the squares"
He's holding on for dear life
She's standing upright soon to be dead
Shotgunned in the back for standing
in peaceful protest
at Talaat Harb Square in Cairo
Armed with a wreath & banner
chanting
"Bread! Freedom! Social Justice!"
A poet activist for SPAP
the Socialist Peoples Alliance Party
Standing up for a better Egypt
& for her five-year-old Bebo
Standing in memory of the
Muslim Brotherhood martyrs of Tahir Square
slain unseating Mubarak
Shaimaa al-Sabbagh
Hair disheveled
Blood on her cheek
Shot down pointblank in the back
Dead that day
Standing up for us
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