How Must I Believe? How must I believe when you have made belief more like blasphemy As you separated countries, killed, and spread corruption All in the name of religion and devotion You, who in the name of God, orphaned children You, who in the name of God, have stolen, lied, demolished homes Only to live in castles built with bricks of injustice and slavery Are you going to respond to this, o summoned ones? For we have tired of your senseless speeches We have tired of poetry, of songs, of chants, We have tired of reform movements, of extremism, of neutrality We have tired of presidents, security councils, and leadership We have tired of religious adherence and apostasy We have tired, grown weary in excess For is there value in a Constitution under the shadow of tyranny? I sat with myself but didnt find myself For I too, have been colonized Within me, theres a political prison Within me, theres a settlement Within me, theres a man carrying a weapon And another looking for backwardness Within me, a woman breathes a letter that falls on deaf ears Within me, there are airplanes and explosions Within me, there are worshippers bowing before God, within them hearts that do not soften Within me, there are Arab countries from which only harm befalls So how must I believe when within me, theres an enemy that fears nothing at all My Arab identity antagonizes me, It melts in my chest like ice, as a another Cold War; It antagonizes me... It stops me from passing and never stamps my passport It antagonizes me... as it roams in the streets searching for a Foreign government to shelter her It roams... from officer to officer, from embassy to embassy, completely ignored My Arab identity antagonizes me, It melts in my chest like ice, As another Cold war For how must I believe When my Arab identity Has become as shameless as a woman astray: A beseeching, imploring whore We have abandoned knowledge and so Have been abandoned As we rejoice in mere oblivion and pleasure O Ummah of Iqraa, What have you read? You have preferred everything over the mind instead We have sought knowledge abroad And so too will do our children So how must I believe while I yearn to live in countries other than my own? How must I believe when you have made belief more like blasphemy? As you separated nations, killed, and spread corruption All in the name of religion and devotion You, who in the name of God, orphaned children You, who in the name of God, will obtain nothing As long as you oppress mankind Do what you wish and claim what you wish, For I have believed in Him, So why must I believe in you? Withdraw your belief systems, For I declare my disbelief in you.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:56:31 +0000
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