Can anybody hear me?
By: Salma Hussein
Can anybody hear me?
Does anybody hear my cry?
What happened to my sons and daughters?
Did they forget about me already?
I have no one to turn to
No one to ask for help
My siblings fight amongst themselves
Blinded by tribalism
I’m so alone
It’s so cold, I dream of having a stable place to call home
Without the fear of bloodshed
What has gone wrong with my people?
Do they not see what is taking place?
Do they not see the path that we are headed towards?
Why isn’t anybody doing anything about this?
Why is the world cold?
Doesn’t anybody care?
The suffrage continues
Starvation increases
Bloodshed continues
While the educated turn the corner
Who is out there for us?
Who am I to turn to for help?
Who am I to seek protection from?
When my own people call war on themselves?
Our children are left their to suffer
Their forced to watch their countrymen kill each other
What kind of image and lesson are we passing on to our youngsters?
We fled to America and other western countries
Believing that life would get better
Little did we know what awaited us?
Our youth fail prey to the American way of life
Leaving behind their religion and culture
Our sons turned to drugs and gang activities
While our daughters abandoned their hijabs and came up with new ways to flaunt their beauties
Who is to blame?
Every person who has every used qabil to divide people
Every individual who cares for their own tribes success while caring little about the others.
I ask is qabil really worth it all?
Having no government for nearly 16 years.
Having our men kill each other for land and power
Somalia belongs to all of us
Regardless of your tribe you’re Muslim first
We need to put our differences aside and celebrate our similarities
Why have we allowed this to go on for this long?
How long can we wait for our country men to finally realize that its not worth it.
Walahi if we continue on in this path
It won’t be long before our language and culture disappears
Is that our goal?
If it is then lets continue on with this division and chaos that has raped us of our beautiful land.
But if we want to have a country to call our own we have to realize that regardless of what part of Somalia you are from were all aiming for the same goal.
A country is nothing without its people
Somalia needs us more than ever
United we stand and divided we fa
You are 100% right sis, this is the road to no where, but unfortunately we are in a dark house that lost electricity ages ago and none of us happened to have a torch, a candle, or even a box of matches with them.
ReplyDeleteOur only hope was our religion and our Muslim Scholars to take us out of this mess, but sadly their reputation and trust has been badly hurt by some ruthless so called shuyukh. May Allah guide us all to the right path.
The one thing we cannot fail to do if we are to get out of this mess is get rid of poisonous qabiil concept. Let us start the mending, healing, and remedial process so we can once again be strong...Soomaaliyey toosoo, toosoo isku tiirsada ee..
Shukran jaziilan Salmah for the moving peice.