I wondered
How embarrassing must it be
To be naked
Outside
Like this tree
She has no shame
Not one bit
And she claims
That she had lived
A thousand and one
Days under the sun
Naked
Happy
And Free
I wondered how great it would be
To be naked like that tree
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Trust is key
My color is a puzzling one
Golden like the sun
Forged from the womb of the first civilization on
Earth
Sumerian
Between Tigris and the Euphrates
I thirst
-What are you?
I am a human
-But where were you born?
Here on Earth
As if it was OK to question my humanity
Just because
My color is not dark enough nor light
My color is a puzzling one
Golden like the sun
Mined from a womb of the first civilization on Earth
Sumerian
Between Tigris and the Euphrates
I thirst
I gather myself to reply
To the question of why
I am here
As if they had a better reason to be on this Earth
I am here to survive
To touch more than one life
To tell a story of those before
Of how life continues through the war
I am here because I refused not be
I decided it was my right to be free
I am here because I chose to stay alive
And to show
Those like you
Who never knew
A human with a different color
Or accent
That it is OK to be different
I used to trust the shield
I’d create around me
As she told me
سلام و قول من رب رحيم
I told myself those words
Over and over
As I passed a terrorist stop
As I passed the bombed car
As I closed my eyes to sleep
…
But now I’m safe
Away from it all
And I say those words again
Salamun wa qaulun min rabin raheem
“Peace from a merciful God”
And I hope to rest
Forgetting what I can not forget
