asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 The Lie The only weapon I have, The only revolution at my disposal Is to teach my daughter The exact opposite of everything I learnt growing up....
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 Road to Self Someday, a man will marry you, Not because he loves you, But because he loves the trappings of you. This, however, is a good thing...
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 Forward... I will endeavour to unlearn all that I have been taught By a diseased culture: Un-truths and half-truths Like synapses digging grooves in...
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 First Love You walked into my garden much later in life. I didn’t expect that. After we’ve lived way past all our illusions And made peace with the...
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 To Noureen... Noureen, Born with the sun inside your skin. You trailed light and shadow in your wake. I went under, water filled my lungs and I...
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 To My Younger Self One day you will think, “I am a fuse in the centre of an armed camp.” One day you will feel like the panther in Rilke’s poem, Moving...
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 On Sudan My land, my home, my African heart You gave me language, character. You straddled two worlds like a giant. Now you are still. They cut...
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 Underwater Dreams Five steps from the shore, I dive and enter another world. A world defined by silence and riotous color. As my eyes and lungs adjust, I...
asilhrashid Dec 9, 2019 Forever... Forever is the word we whisper to our children As they fall asleep to the sound of sonic booms. It is the only gift we can give them, a...
