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has added a new journali'm smiling-
i have a fire inside
to melt the ice in your eyes
i'm standing-
& no, i'll never go down
though you'd trip me with your frown
you look like a frog
i feel like a king
you fight to force freedom
i pray to reach peace
my sisters wear veils
your daughters date strangers
& scrape babies out of their wombs with coat hangers
like gas to a fire,
you fight AIDS with sex-
but passing out condoms aint worked just yet-
maybe you should abstain-
no regrets
i don't hate you
i see you hate your self
and you think i would follow you
just for your wealth?-
find a whore
because I'M not for sale-
your son looks like he wants
to be like me
he don't LOOK dumb
so i think maybe he reads
between lines
& sees behind screens
why do moths go to flames?
why do ladies love pimps?
why did sharks like to follow
behind the slave ships?
why do people take guns
when they go to spread peace?
why do you wipe yourself
with the hand you use to eat?
why do black kids think white
& white kids act black?
am i a terrorist
for questioning that?
is it radical for me
to say music is wack?
& prefer the Qur'an
over raps about crack?
is it extremism
or even hardcore
to value my body
while you sell & poison yours?
am i a fundamentalist
for taking my right
to stick to the truth-
clear as day is from night?
what the hell is a jihadist?
who made up that word?
i'm Muslim, not islamist
these terms sound absurd
I am a mujahid
WE are mujahideen
we keep faith in our hearts
not bombs up our sleeves
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has added a new journal*In the Name of ALLAH, thGRACIOUS, thMERCIFUL*
sometimes i wish that i had died
or never was born
that i was a fly
why should i try to dry my Eyes?
the Pain won't go: It only subsides
& rushes back in like Australian tides
i disguise It, despise It, run & hide
but inside i'm still a Prisoner; why?
why i'm a Prisoner? why why why?
why are these Tears in my eyes eyes eyes?
i'm in a prison of Lies Lies Lies
why i'm a prisoner? why?
i look in the mirror & hate my face
then look at my skin & hate my race
i hate everything about this place
still i wait, cuz i don't know my fate
i'm still a Prisoner; why why why?
my sentence is for life, why try?
will i be Free when i die, die, die?
i'm earth's Prisoner; why?
i've given everything just to be my Self
i gave my best Health
& lost all my Wealth
now i'm on my face & knees because i need help:
O ALLAH, it's me; please Heaven, not Hell
& will you tell:
why i'm a Prisoner? why why why?
i'm trapped under the Sky Sky Sky
why i'm a Prisoner? why, why why?
i'm earth's Prisoner; why?
i'm earth's Prisoner