Imagine

What will happen if you imagine this?

Imagine sitting outside the house playing in the sand

While mum is sitting outside and watching you with smile

Imagine your mum sending you to school

With out worrying about gun fight

Imagine waking up Friday morning with a bright smile

Coz there is no madrasa and head to the beach

Imagine living life in a place where you belong to

Imagine if you never left your birth place

Imagine the street with names

Imagine if the fathers spend more time with their sons

Imagine our flag flying high

Imagine going home late with out police harassing you

Imagine our elders going to the hospital with out worrying about language errors

Imagine peace and unity

Imagine love and care

Imagine a united nation

Imagine these youth in school uniforms

Imagine books and pens in their hands instead of guns and armors

Imagine big schools with beautiful gardens and play ground

Imagine signs across the road

Imagine flying from this to that city

Imagine driving down the high and stopping at robots

Imagine going to the neighbor just to hear a story (sheeko sheeko)

Imagine running to madrasa with a bottle of ink in your hand

Imagine big shops shopping malls, soccer teams, hospitals and university in your city

Imagine kids in line at school and singing the national anthem

Imagine unity in Somali

Imagine peace in the neighborhood

Imagine what we could have achieved in the past 20 years

Imagine if we were not refugees

Imagine if those lives were not lost

And imagine if the hungry Yemen Sea didn’t swallow our kids

Imagine if these enemies didn’t tear us apart

Imagine if we never knew tribalism

Imagine peace in Somalia

Imagine if these groups were the right leaders

Imagine if those graduated kids were a life

Imagine them saving lives and teaching at schools

Imagine living life in a peaceful Somalia

Imagine

Poet of The Streetz (P.o.s)

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