Isn't enough????
Isn't it enough that our youngesters r lost in the game
A game that has no end and promises glory and fame
Isn't it enough that our sisters are losing their self respect
Forgetting their true identity i believe its time for a reality check
Wheres the community when we need them the most
At times like this the communities should have had their doors open and not be closed
Why must the world be so cruel
Why r we ignoring the quran when its our own tool
The tool to success
A tool that can lower ur stress
Life is too short to waste
And death is a event in everyones lives that all will have to taste
Isn't it enough that our boys r locked up in prison?
And our girls are killing their unborn children without a reason
Isn't it enough that we had to leave our home due to tribalism affairs
We say we want peace but its us who r fueling the fire with more flames and then say we care
My country has been raped of its basic rights
With our countrymen killing each other in endless fights
I miss the land that was so clean n pure
But now it has been diagnosed with a disease that has no cure
Isn’t it enough that our kids r forgetting their mother tongue
Isn’t it enough that the only thing they remember is the noise of the loud guns
Who is to blame?
For getting us into this game
A game that has no beginning or ending
A game that has us believing in a distorted image
Wake up brothers n sisters Somalia waits us
N we surely wont’ succeed by taking the American way of life
Hey there Salma. Keep your head up. Most of our youth in the diaspora have all but forgotten about their true home.
ReplyDeleteIt is more than enough for a relatively healthy community, but as you have eloquently put it, we ain't a healthy community. The troubling reality is that no doctor has been successful thus far to get the diagnosis right, but there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, or maybe there isn't.
ReplyDeleteIt is indead something that needs to be carefully thought out, but we are short on time. As the old Arab saying puts it, "Al waqtu ka sayfi, idaa lam taqdha'hu yaqdha'ak" meaning time is like knife, if you don't cut it, it will cut ya.
So brother and sisters we need to do something and do it fast without neglecting trouble spots. Some actions we can take are reaching out and educating the community from the bottom up and not the other way around.
Thanks Salmah for opening this forum for us, the somali youth. Keep updating the page and raising the real questions you already started.
Husein Anshur
Dallas, Texas
I had a dream that I would live to see a united Somalia. A united people who would put their past behind them 2 join hands 4 the betterment of their country, people and of themselves as human beings. I am sad to say that we are long from seeing that day, but we the youth of today can make it happen. We the youth of the Diaspora must not disappoint. We cannot and will not allow qabil, politics get in the way of the BIGGER picture of a United Somalia. We cannot continue to allow it to divide and stand in the way of any progress from taking place.
ReplyDeleteWe have all seen the evils of Qabil even right here in MPLS where some are driven 2 help only their clan, but we the youth must overcome this illness and replace it with Sister/Brotherhood. Somalis are Somali's REGARDLESS of their clan, region so please rep SOMALIWYEN and together we can all live to see a UNITED SOMALIYA.
AMIIN YA ALLAH
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True dream is a dream n reality is quite something different, but yeah we can at least try to make dreams come true..With effort, commitment, and good niyyah, anything is possible
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