Quo vadis Libya?
(written in September 2011)
by Sylvia Edwards
28th October 2011
No matter how much things change
they remain the same,
in Libya this is true.
Tribe fights against tribe
brutality is returned by more brutality.
An Arab warrior held his people
in chains for 40 years
martyr to loyalists
monster to the broken
and tortured,
yet someday tribesmen may
sing of his defence
of the citadel.
Everything changes
yet so much remains the same.
