Over one hundred dead,
Hundreds of thousands left without a home,
Could have been avoided,
Two thousand, seven hundred fifty tonnes,
Of ammonium nitrate,
Stored at the Beirut port for seven years,
From a Russian ship whose payments were late,
Despite the knowledge of the government,
About the dangers there,
Thirteen hundred times Oklahoma's bomb,
Sat like a fatal dare,
Could have been avoided,
Two thousand, seven hundred fifty tonnes,
Of ammonium nitrate,
Stored at the Beirut port for seven years,
From a Russian ship whose payments were late,
Despite the knowledge of the government,
About the dangers there,
Thirteen hundred times Oklahoma's bomb,
Sat like a fatal dare,
That then blew up,
Seems from a fire next door,
Lebanese stringing nooses from windows,
Demanding to know who they made them for.
