Dear Home
Home....
Dear country,
Dear Somalia,
the mother of the family I see and feel youI see the tears on your cheeks as you look at your starving childrenI see the scorched earth of you surfaceI see your bared bones barely holding its body together yet caring for its peopleI hear your sopping in the middle of nightbecause you have barely eaten yet have to provide for our people.Though seasons of rains failed you home dear sweet home there is a sign of hopeThere is a sign of lifeIn me and in all those of us who left you many years agoI saw it in the eyes of the three five and six year old girls at Brian Coyle* holding the sign that read “Car wash to help Somali famine victims”the eight nine and ten year old boys washing stranger's car under the scorching sun for a Somalia they never been to or seenthe elders walking miles knocking door to door to collect donations will never forget youSomalia my heart my homeland and my hooyo we will never forget youI see the pain I see the heart breaking hunger and I feel your hurtingbut.....Home dear sweet home we will never forget youYour prosperity was mine your poorness and problems are oursTho’ I departedThough I left you for far away landsthough I am not physically walking on your soilThough we are not crying on you for all this burden we caused on youThough many of us are not home with you dear homeWe will never forget you.We are home our heart is with youOur Thoughts and prayers are on you every time we pray duhr assar maqrib isha and subh and will never forget youIt is you where we pray for it is you where we desperately missIt is only you home where we are trying to go backgo back to start a new beginningWhere we take responsibility of our actions.Where we care and look after one another regardless of any qabiilRegardless of anything that would divide usdear home we will unite for the sake of youfor the sake of our country and for the sake of our peopleFor the time being dear home we are with you andwill never forget you..*Brian Coyle Community center at Cedar Riverside neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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