Fatima

 

Fatima

Strong as a mountain

nice as sheep

so the day you

said never do this again

I did not get you the tape

still beautiful, a clear face at seventy

a beautiful book, "Unlimited Power".

A beautiful life! Thanks for the rocks.

 

A sister so tall and beautiful, a model

a Writer, a CEO!

A Sister so nice and proud

Aicha

 

She ran away from a life's

hardship and silence

finding the land of milk and honey

my brother Zyed

Moses, Musa

A Black man, so nice 

 

Fatima, 70 years you carried me

and I have carried you. 70 years of

protection and laughter! Harships

and ease, investing in our lives

my sibling, 4 of us

 

What is your name

the last one, I am the last one

a brother that is young

blossoming

wife, two children, Mashalla

a career, building incrementally

 

Me, a person whose flaws

compassionate, liar

power hungry

"you make men"

like my dad who died

5 days later I got married

always smiling yet sad

 

Me character defects

unforgiving, a cause

so big and far- fatched

My African American men

a cause that my mom separated

from, and my dad got me into

and my brothe Zyed got out of

and My sister Aicha horrorified, stunned refused

that made my younger brother broke the silence 

 

All the ropes now lose. My family free

I am home, here in Somaliland

Free, I am home in my black world

in the head and on this black earth

The Pharoah land, the land of my

lineage

 

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