Saturday, July 3, 2010

{Group poem 10 Part 3} Somalia's 50th Independence Day

That’s you and me…

Not a prisoner in an open sea…

Since the day we’ve been born and we still live in this torn…

We gave up our Home for disaster’s to perform…

We’ve decided to leave and walk to another land…

We’ve grabbed and seeked for a foreign hand…

More then 20 years and still we’re not relieved…

We wake up everyday with headlines received…

Blood spilled around caused by bullets which are still refilled…

Pictures of terror, victims and orphans beside borders build…

We’re just like them in pain and harm ...

Imagine that victim who lost his arm..

We keep complaining about nothing..

While they need something ...

Something that relieves them from pain and tense..

They seek rest, peace and difference ...

Safety allows it ....

Faith represents it ...

Nobody is welcome in another ground...

So why acting like you ‘re highly crowned...

You will always remain what you are ...

Even if your miles away far..

Whatever is happening or whatever is done..

If you keep standing ..You will see none..

They will never stop ...

Fair will never end and guns will never drop..

Time is running fast ..

Every second counts Future and has left Past..

A new generation...

That’s you and me...

Not prisoners in their own red sea...

Don't wait for conflicts to end...

Keep searching for Hope to land...

Discuss with your neighbour or your friend..

Solutions will never come unless you think right for it...

Take your chances to submit...

We hear lost, violence or silent cry...

What we all do is to listen to how those dye..

A new generation...

That is you and me...

Not a prisoner in a vanished sea...

You have the strength...the ability...

Give answers with all the possibility...

Gather your mother, your aunt or people from another clan...

Change opens in a small box with a plan...

We just need to show it can...

Throw out your voice and spit out those rocks...

Ever since we’ve born it's all about who and that...

I'm not responsible for your faults or who was bad..

I have studied and that says enough...

I'll use it for a take off...

Even how simple it is ...

As long as I am doing something we miss...

It will be useful for Change to succeed ...

And for a Nation to complete...

A new generation ...

That's you and me...

Not the prisoners in that bloody sea...

Now we want every Youth to repeat…

Hooyo I’ll make you proud…

Home I’ll speak out loud …

Children forget our doubt…

I don’t care anymore who’s got killed or who respond..

Whether it’s my uncle ,my brother or my aunt..

The mission is where do I stand and how will I pronounce…

That’s the way the Horn of Africa will be World-wide crowned…

There is no more view left to be right-back bounced…

It’s up to me to let it out and announce..

And I’m speaking to all Youth around…

Across all borders even back Home on each ground…

We will be One voice, on One mission ready to be found…

I’ll carry on the name Somali with a crown…

The new generation …

That’s who we are …

The white prisoners in the blue sea…

So start and please let it be …


Yassie
Copyright © 2010

p.s. I'm just a dreamer in all those conflicts while some think we aint got no hope for the Horn of Africa ...I wish and pray all Somali-youth around the world understand that not only you are hurt but the one who's in all that's happening is counting on "The new generation" just like 50 years ago Heroes who stood up for our rights ......YOUTH IS THE SOLUTION BUT PLEASE GUIDE INSTEAD OFF IGNORING
I believe in HOPE in the neariest future ...if you don't then let me do my thing as a true Somali

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