I was not these days thinking to introduce Gabay to the attention of the public

Neither do I initiated poems I once used to brand and promote

Nor have I recited the formal beginnings of the alliterations of Alif and Miim,

I've stopped becoming involved in the foundations of the essential point of 

       literature;

But when I honestly couldn't able to stand idly by while my people suffered  

       grievances and hardship

Then it became suitable for me in the circumstance to say a few words. 

 

A country that have lost its father and completely orphaned

His wife has long time ago crossed over and passed away

The whole territory sealed off and fenced and inside dark deeds been

       ommitted

Having neither paternal and maternal uncles nor paternal aunts

It's their kinsmen who killed and send them to their graves

It's a very highly destructive life occurring one day after another.

 

Say, it's a forked tongue venomous snake with human masks!

Say, where are the people whom I used to call intellectuals!

Say, there is no difference between men - they are the two sides of the same

       coin!

Their envoys were been put in a pit

Anyone refusing to take the orders is stabbed in the heart by a dagger

It's they who are antagonizing each other and not giving attention to others

We know that there is an astonishing discernment among the Somalis

If once upon a time they were very powerful, today they killed by themselves.

 

Hey Abees! The curse, the disaster and the misfortune that took place

Clouds of dust soared into the sky in the Somali territory

Humans couldn't able to stay in because of the steam from a high flame

The country has become an open school where the world can do their training

       courses

And the population living there have moved with urgent haste and stampeded.

 

Because of the intense feeling of fear and terror each group have fled to 

       different destinations;

Part of them is those who are powerless and crying for help

Part of them is those who are attacked continuously with bombs or shells with

       no mercy

Part of them is those who have been hunted in the jungle

Part of them is those who are having no hope for the future and scattered in

       the Arab World

Part of them is those who have ran away from prosecution and travelled and

       sought asylum in the West

Part of them is those who have fled the country by boat faced hardship and

       reached their end in the deep sea.

 

I'm totally bewildered the misfortune condition that we are in

I'm outraged of the isolation and the feeling of being alone

I feel embarrassment of the lack of understanding between the people

The contradiction and putting the wrong interpretation on the religion

The student and the teacher are in a very perilous situation

They both hold the symbols of the Holy Qur'an and the Hadith

And carefully select the most suitable points for their claims,

You have not been merciful and because of that it has lost its eternity

What we have done that other nations have accused us

Everyone knows with the exception of the rude person.

 

Uh-oh! Aren't I grieve in the heart and wept because of our anger and

       expressing sufferings?

Uh-oh! Aren't I grieve in the heart and wept because of you not having

       prospect of a future?

Uh-oh! Aren't I grieved in the heart and wept because of the idea of let me

       alone have it all?

Uh-oh! Aren't I grieve in the heart and wept because of our lingering hate and

       revenge?

Uh-oh! Aren't I grieve in the heart and wept because of the fatelessness of the

       situation?

Uh-oh! Aren't I grieve in the heart and wept because of refusing to rule gently

       and quietly?

 

The mother who, like the female animal which has been induced to go on giving

       milk (by having her smell the skin of her dead young), failed to find her

       offspring

The mother who wherever she tries to look and search been blocked

The mother who lives from the morning twilight till dark in the night expressing

       a range of emotions of ah! And oh!

The mother who wherever she puts her feet break her strength and firmness

The mother who wherever she is located is targeted and bombarded with

       heavy artillery shells.

 

Let me not grief my pain and distress that is accompanying me

Colonialism and dictatorship have just now been born in my country

I entered an extreme form of inequality's door - a practice of owing slaves

       abolished long time ago

Worse are the black Africans than the previous white colonizers

Our men lost all the awareness of anything as well as the way

They are treated like a he-camel burden commanded and called whoa! To make

        them to slow down

And now they are walking skeletons and look like a thin sheep and goats.

 

Worse is my hopelessness than the situation and the whole society that turned

       upside down

And I execute without any resistance all malevolent orders given to me

Hey, Abees! People betrayed their nation's trust and broke its pillars for the

       sake of selfish desire for wealth and power

If once I'm way behind my peers and looking very horrible

It's appropriate for me to forget living further

I've to endure as if been taken to the hereafter

I've to move away completely from this world.

 

Let me bring my Alif alliteration to a halt before it keeps going on and on;

Oh, God! Nobody else is responsible but the blame can be put squarely on them

Oh, God! The luck of trust and the persistent feeling of ill will that exists

Oh, God! Draw together because they are harbouring a grudge against each

       other

Oh, God! The drought and the shortage of water in the dry season that is

       taking place

We pray for flowers and vegetations

Oh, God! Bring stability on our behalf, we are thirst for peace

And later give fresh air and new beginning

Among the people there is intense feeling of hatred

I conclude my verses with the wish that one day a leader who obeys Allah will

       bring the people together.

 

London, 2009