"Indeed We created man, and We know what his own self whispers to him."

-Al-Qur'an 50:16-

Friday, November 12, 2010

For Omar

Anger is my prison
Prison bars, long and hard
Anger that finds no release, no relief
Fueled by blood and pundits on the TV screen
React or don't, defend or wont
They're coming
Unprovoked they will come to snatch away my dignity
Humiliate me
Turn my people against me
Threaten them to renounce me
Like Yousef, I'll languish behind bars
Waiting for freedom in death or life
While they play with words
Redefined and re-described
to persecute others for lesser crimes
They purchase evil in exchange for righteousness 
This world in exchange for the next