The Lion's Den - David Broza

Come walk the road to the lion’s den

South of midnight

Karachi Pakistan

Some named it the nursery

Some named it shed

A compound, a shack, the papers said

I found it in my father’s holy book

The lion’s den

The lion’s den

The lion’s den, the caption read

Come touch the walls on which two eyes

With a thousand dreams wrote songs

Of fierce-some battles, ancient wars, that for seven days went on

I found it in my father’s holy book

The lion’s den, the caption read

Never in history of humanity

There has been such pain

Never has there stood the son of Abel

So fiercely facing Cain

Never has a ray of light

Intense in charge and aim

Illuminated evil in his name

I found it in my father’s holy book

The lion’s den, the caption read