Differences

"What difference does it make entertaining through it" --Knaan

...but entertaining through it numbs you from some of the pain.

 he told me that one day I'll be like a waving flag, but what

difference does it make because when you look into my eyes you

don't see any of that, 

and I know its sad but all you see is someone broken, depressed

and feeling homeless. stressed and hopeless.

 so I close my eyes to escape this pain and imagine sitting under

a palm tree, 

sipping tea with my grandfather as the heat of Somalia's warm

sand hits my feet,

 he tells me that I am all grown up with my ancestors beauty! 

but this beautiful dream is interrupted by a more horrific one, gun

shots and little children,

starving and looking still and lifeless

and suddenly all of my trivial worries are just soo silly. 

So I sigh and ask myself,

what difference does it make because both my country and

grandfather have long ago died...

Naima Mohamed

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