Poems from Guantanamo Bay

[N.O.R.F]

and you think you had it bad,,,,,,

 

THE POEMS

 

 

Humiliated In The Shackles

 

By Sami al Hajj

 

When I heard pigeons cooing in the trees,

 

Hot tears covered my face.

 

When the lark chirped, my thoughts composed

 

A message for my son.

 

Mohammad, I am afflicted.

 

In my despair, I have no one but Allah for comfort.

 

The oppressors are playing with me,

 

As they move freely around the world.

 

They ask me to spy on my countrymen,

 

Claiming it would be a good deed.

 

They offer me money and land,

 

And freedom to go where I please.

 

Their temptations seize

 

My attention like lightning in the sky.

 

But their gift is an empty snake,

 

Carrying hypocrisy in its mouth like venom,

 

They have monuments to liberty

 

And freedom of opinion, which is well and good.

 

But I explained to them that

 

Architecture is not justice.

 

America, you ride on the backs of orphans,

 

And terrorize them daily.

 

Bush, beware.

 

The world recognizes an arrogant liar.

 

To Allah I direct my grievance and my tears.

 

I am homesick and oppressed.

 

Mohammad, do not forget me.

 

Support the cause of your father, a God-fearing man.

 

I was humiliated in the shackles.

 

How can I now compose verses? How can I now write?

 

After the shackles and the nights and the suffering and the tears,

 

How can I write poetry?

 

My soul is like a roiling sea, stirred by anguish,

 

Violent with passion.

 

I am a captive, but the crimes are my captors'.

 

I am overwhelmed with apprehension.

 

Lord, unite me with my son Mohammad.

 

Lord, grant success to the righteous.

 

 

 

Death Poem

 

By Jumah al Dossari

 

Take my blood.

 

Take my death shroud and

 

The remnants of my body.

 

Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.

 

Send them to the world,

 

To the judges and

 

To the people of conscience,

 

Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.

 

And let them bear the guilty burden, before the world,

 

Of this innocent soul.

 

Let them bear the burden, before their children and before history,

 

Of this wasted, sinless soul,

 

Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the "protectors of peace".

 

 

 

Is It True?

 

By Osama Abu Kadir

 

Is it true that the grass grows again after rain?

 

Is it true that the flowers will rise up again in the Spring?

 

Is it true that birds will migrate home again?

 

Is it true that the salmon swim back up their streams?

 

It is true. This is true. These are all miracles.

 

But is it true that one day we'll leave Guantanamo Bay?

 

Is it true that one day we'll go back to our homes?

 

I sail in my dreams. I am dreaming of home.

 

To be with my children, each one part of me;

 

To be with my wife and the ones that I love;

 

To be with my parents, my world's tenderest hearts.

 

I dream to be home, to be free from this cage.

 

But do you hear me, oh Judge, do you hear me at all?

 

We are innocent, here, we've committed no crime.

 

Set me free, set us free, if anywhere still

 

Justice and compassion remain in this world!

 

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[BOB]

I'm glad to see you enjoy spoken word as much as you enjoy seeing the back of Henry..lool

 

Nice poem my brother and thanks for sharing it with us...me in particular...

 

 

Salam Aleikum W.W

 

 

Peace, Love & Unity.

[N.O.R.F]

^^No problem akhi. I was a bit of a poet myself. Let me come back with a few lines,,,,,,