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black faces white tongues the smell of sea water taunts with sarcasm drink me oh somalia im sorry i couldnt be there for you but while you were trying to to get your daughter to drink her urine a singer died while your children were falling from the tree of life scattered bushels of rotten fruit some whiter children were shot oh somalia only if your beautiful wasnt so black only if you were gaza or libya or bahrain or egypt or norway or england or japan or america or the moon i would mention you in a poem only if you had oil or poppy or timber or rubber or white people i would mention you in my prayers oh somalia only if your beautiful wasnt so black the world has grown accustom to watching you die since i was a child somalia - synonymous with suffering african meant adversity an african struggling was like a fish swimming a dog barking somalia meant starvation nevermind the magic in your poetry or the glowing saints rising from your lands like a thousand moons nevermind the beauty of your beaches or the utter perfection in the hips of your women oh somalia only if you didnt wear the resemblance of eve like an ornate funeral shroud we wouldnt see you as our sin and avert our gazes in shame turn our faces to blame only if your lack of the worldy didnt remind us of our lack of the other-worldly perhaps then we would mention you oh somalia only if your beautiful wasnt so black |
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@part4 | 14 February 12 | |
Amir Sulaiman is a African American Muslim poet http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&v=PTFNA6jtwHA&nomobile=1
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