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Thanks goes to Sian Croose who commissioned me to write a song for the Voice Project community choir for Amnesty International's 50th birthday.
This poem I found in 'Poems from Guantanamo' Poems that had been smuggled out on scraps of paper, on the edges of polystyrene cups, put together and published.

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Is it true
that the grass grows again after rain
Is it true
that flowers will rise up again in the spring
Is it true
that birds will migrate home again
Is it true
that the salmon will swim back
swim back up their streams

Is it true This is true
These are all miracles
Is it true that one day we'll go back to our homes
But is it true that one day we'll leave Guantanamo Bay

Dreaming of home
I sail in my dreams I'm dreaming of home
to be with my children each one part of me
to be with my wife and the ones that I love
to be with my parents my world's tenderest hearts

But do you hear me Oh judge do you hear me at all

We are innocent here We've committed no crime here
But is it true that one day we'll leave Guantanamo Bay

Set me free, set us free
If anywhere still justice and compassion
remain in this world

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from Flickering into Existence, released September 22, 2017
Composer, voice , violin Sianed Jones Lyrics Osama Abu Kabir

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Sianed Jones Cardiff, UK

Sianed is a composer / performer that works in many different ways:- as a soloist creating site specific, multi media bi- lingual settings for her music. She also works in collaboration with, theatre makers, dancers, writers, poets, storytellers. Rooted in Wales and looking outwards towards the rest of the world and the future. ... more

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