The acceptance of the immediate success is our greatest enemy to ourselves, when we should be realizing our potentials and aiming for what we are truly capable of. It's like settling for less than you deserve and should be treated that way. Why stop at the sky when the heavens are way above the sky. Don't limit yourself, even through struggle do we grow & thrive. ***
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Time doesn't last long, but money lasts shorter.
Road to perdition, let's turn before the border.
We try to make a dollar out of a quarter, too busy chasing paper we forget to put our life in order.
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You can't delete the past, but you can write the future. Destiny is your truth and everything else is a rumour.
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People only change when they change Principles. Progress is only made when priorities are defined.
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Investment of time is more important than money. Some say time is money, but money can never equal up to time. You can gain all of the riches, but if your time isn't well spent on the important things/people in your life, none of those riches will be worth it in the end.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Hope is Missing Us
We mastered a foreign language,
But is it the language that mastered us?
Did it truly bastard us?
Can we come back from ash and dust?
Can we stop the cycle of boom and bust?
Our leaders can we truly trust?
Can we curb greed and lust?
Accountability is a must.
Deep in the core, deep in the crust,
Our hope is buried and it's really crushed.
Yet it's still alive, just needs a thrust.
In reality, it's just missing Us.
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But is it the language that mastered us?
Did it truly bastard us?
Can we come back from ash and dust?
Can we stop the cycle of boom and bust?
Our leaders can we truly trust?
Can we curb greed and lust?
Accountability is a must.
Deep in the core, deep in the crust,
Our hope is buried and it's really crushed.
Yet it's still alive, just needs a thrust.
In reality, it's just missing Us.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Frustrations of Somali Diaspora
The diaspora feels like they're not wanted and yet want to make a difference. The somalis inside somalia are nicest people, they don't have any opportunities or future due to the opportunists who call themselves sheikhs, leaders, presidents, pm's, tribal heads, gadoomiyes, etc... the problem is NOT the somalis inside somalia that's messing things up, but Somalis outside..who fuel all of the wrong, don't do enough because of their lack of know-how, and their absence alone. So its put up or shut up if you care about somalia. And you gotta go there and see for yourself to make a real difference.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Freedom Fighters & Terrorists / African Future
Only this day in age has there been provided a reason for whole communities not to support FREEDOM because of the labeling of FREEDOM FIGHTERS as "terrorists".
Only this day do real terrorists get to be called "Freedom Fighters" in the name of "DEMOCRACY" .. there was never a real threat to America that it didnt bring itself. such as selling the same WMD's to same people it went war with. (Iraq)
America has had a bad track of supporting dictators/regimes because they were of best interest to America's agenda. This is not true democracy, and America must realize that they have to practice what they preach.
Ever since America's beginnings, America has been a safe haven for immigrants around the world who are tired of tyranny in their country or unjust persecution (Puritans coming to Plymouth Rock escaping England). Countless immigrants from different parts of the world have come to America ever since.
The Start of a Bad Foundation
Yes, America was opportunistic in kicking out the native aboriginal tribes who once thrived on this land, but that wasn't the only injustice done. Throughout the slavery, the racism, the non-equality, etc. - America has shaped and changed ...and YET to this day it is not as perfect or as great "land of the free, home of the brave" as it aims to be and says to be.
TO change that America, must continue reforming the great injustices within its society. It CANNOT let Corporations, Businesses, Politicians, Lobbyists take advantage of it. For the greater good, the PEOPLE of AMERICA that have stood up against injustice before time and time again, MUST stand up for any injustice that is happening. (PRISON SYSTEM, THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM). America is lacking in those departments for the same reason: No One is trying to MAKE significant changes, and more and more youth are falling through the cracks. What will be left for the future of America if the youth will not be there to grab the baton?
Going back to the subject of IMMIGRATION. America, which has accepted immigrants because of 'asylum' and other persecutions must realize that they caused some of these immigrants to come here whether directly or indirectly. HOW? By supporting blindly or strategically dictators/authoritarians/leaders who are NOT fit or are NOT just to their people and their country.
Freedom Fighters & Terrorists
The world just recognized the Egyptian revolution and the Tunisian revolt. And that's the way a revolution is supposed to occur: TELEVISED. Or in this modern day (tweeted and facebooked). But mostly televised through media.
People of the world just seem to be glued to their tv's and unless you put it right in their face constantly they will not care or they will not understand what's really going on. In places where the media is banned, NGO's are banned, and the U.S. is your full supporter in anything and everything you do, just because you're curbing "terrorism" in the horn of Africa ....you are truly king.
This brings to your attention King Meles Zenawi. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, whose TPLF Political Party have been in power since overthrowing the last regime in 1991. Ethiopia has been the face of Poverty for the past 25 years, and it is still. While most of my constituents are more political I am, I am more of a humanitarian justice kind of person. While Meles, my African brother has been getting aid money for so long, we the people MUST know exactly where it went.
Chinese and other foreigners are threatening to take space in Africa and influence, and that is another reason America supports Ethiopia. China has just become the new 'Soviet Union' of back then. This is 2011. And to play both sides and be a pawn in their chess game once again is history repeating itself. THIS WILL NOT play out well for the poor people who are not making decisions for entire country.
THE NEEDS OF ETHIOPIA & THE ISSUES
Infrastructure : From the poorest place to the richest. Schools, Hospitals, Roads.
Justice/Accountability: No more killings & violence.
Peace & Freedom: Every people who want to live in freedom must get their rights as human beings to be free to do so and free to live on their own.
One must realize with their real eyes the "real lies" that are right in front of their face. The real fighters are those who fight with their pen and paper, those who fight with their mind and skills. Artisans who build with their hands and create solutions with their minds - who curb unnecessary violence & conflict through peace and reconciliation. Africa has been mired in conflict for decades on end and centuries recorded since the Europeans came and colonized us. Now the Europeans and other world powers watch as we colonize each other.
It is an ugly show, but there are people who keep paying for it to continue. Arming each side and watching them slaughter each other, all the while stealing resources little by little. I love my African brothers and sisters, but unless we realize that we are becoming our own oppressors through means not foreseeable to us at the moment, we will never succeed.
Only this day do real terrorists get to be called "Freedom Fighters" in the name of "DEMOCRACY" .. there was never a real threat to America that it didnt bring itself. such as selling the same WMD's to same people it went war with. (Iraq)
America has had a bad track of supporting dictators/regimes because they were of best interest to America's agenda. This is not true democracy, and America must realize that they have to practice what they preach.
Ever since America's beginnings, America has been a safe haven for immigrants around the world who are tired of tyranny in their country or unjust persecution (Puritans coming to Plymouth Rock escaping England). Countless immigrants from different parts of the world have come to America ever since.
The Start of a Bad Foundation
Yes, America was opportunistic in kicking out the native aboriginal tribes who once thrived on this land, but that wasn't the only injustice done. Throughout the slavery, the racism, the non-equality, etc. - America has shaped and changed ...and YET to this day it is not as perfect or as great "land of the free, home of the brave" as it aims to be and says to be.
TO change that America, must continue reforming the great injustices within its society. It CANNOT let Corporations, Businesses, Politicians, Lobbyists take advantage of it. For the greater good, the PEOPLE of AMERICA that have stood up against injustice before time and time again, MUST stand up for any injustice that is happening. (PRISON SYSTEM, THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM). America is lacking in those departments for the same reason: No One is trying to MAKE significant changes, and more and more youth are falling through the cracks. What will be left for the future of America if the youth will not be there to grab the baton?
Going back to the subject of IMMIGRATION. America, which has accepted immigrants because of 'asylum' and other persecutions must realize that they caused some of these immigrants to come here whether directly or indirectly. HOW? By supporting blindly or strategically dictators/authoritarians/leaders who are NOT fit or are NOT just to their people and their country.
Freedom Fighters & Terrorists
The world just recognized the Egyptian revolution and the Tunisian revolt. And that's the way a revolution is supposed to occur: TELEVISED. Or in this modern day (tweeted and facebooked). But mostly televised through media.
People of the world just seem to be glued to their tv's and unless you put it right in their face constantly they will not care or they will not understand what's really going on. In places where the media is banned, NGO's are banned, and the U.S. is your full supporter in anything and everything you do, just because you're curbing "terrorism" in the horn of Africa ....you are truly king.
This brings to your attention King Meles Zenawi. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, whose TPLF Political Party have been in power since overthrowing the last regime in 1991. Ethiopia has been the face of Poverty for the past 25 years, and it is still. While most of my constituents are more political I am, I am more of a humanitarian justice kind of person. While Meles, my African brother has been getting aid money for so long, we the people MUST know exactly where it went.
Chinese and other foreigners are threatening to take space in Africa and influence, and that is another reason America supports Ethiopia. China has just become the new 'Soviet Union' of back then. This is 2011. And to play both sides and be a pawn in their chess game once again is history repeating itself. THIS WILL NOT play out well for the poor people who are not making decisions for entire country.
THE NEEDS OF ETHIOPIA & THE ISSUES
Infrastructure : From the poorest place to the richest. Schools, Hospitals, Roads.
Justice/Accountability: No more killings & violence.
Peace & Freedom: Every people who want to live in freedom must get their rights as human beings to be free to do so and free to live on their own.
One must realize with their real eyes the "real lies" that are right in front of their face. The real fighters are those who fight with their pen and paper, those who fight with their mind and skills. Artisans who build with their hands and create solutions with their minds - who curb unnecessary violence & conflict through peace and reconciliation. Africa has been mired in conflict for decades on end and centuries recorded since the Europeans came and colonized us. Now the Europeans and other world powers watch as we colonize each other.
It is an ugly show, but there are people who keep paying for it to continue. Arming each side and watching them slaughter each other, all the while stealing resources little by little. I love my African brothers and sisters, but unless we realize that we are becoming our own oppressors through means not foreseeable to us at the moment, we will never succeed.
Play Your Cards & Like You I am but One
"Play Your Cards Right"
Life without a meaning is like the sun never beaming,
poetry is an art and I like to rhyme with a feeling.
I hope you understand the random thoughts from my ceiling.
Open like a cut but not too revealing.
Closed with a stitch, but not too concealing.
Yeah...life's kinda ugly and not too appealing.
But we should remain content with our dealing.
Your cards might be in a slight,
But remember privilage is not a birth right, and success isn't overnight.
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"Like You, I am But One"
Like you, I am but one.
From the sword to the gun, I am all done.
The ink is always on a run. It forever flows like the river.
Why should we be takers when we were never the giver?
God is but One and Greater is none.
Gave light from the Moon and warmth from the Sun.
Praise God by doing good deeds smaller than atom and good deeds bigger than a ton. The ummah we should be tighter than bun.
Some complain life's never fun..they chase wealth and a son,
but they'll be in the line of the losers who end up in a shun.
Life without a meaning is like the sun never beaming,
poetry is an art and I like to rhyme with a feeling.
I hope you understand the random thoughts from my ceiling.
Open like a cut but not too revealing.
Closed with a stitch, but not too concealing.
Yeah...life's kinda ugly and not too appealing.
But we should remain content with our dealing.
Your cards might be in a slight,
But remember privilage is not a birth right, and success isn't overnight.
//////////////////////////////
"Like You, I am But One"
Like you, I am but one.
From the sword to the gun, I am all done.
The ink is always on a run. It forever flows like the river.
Why should we be takers when we were never the giver?
God is but One and Greater is none.
Gave light from the Moon and warmth from the Sun.
Praise God by doing good deeds smaller than atom and good deeds bigger than a ton. The ummah we should be tighter than bun.
Some complain life's never fun..they chase wealth and a son,
but they'll be in the line of the losers who end up in a shun.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The Forever Blooming Flower
The forever blooming flower-
I do not plunge into despair because the rose withers,
I have been down that path and have learned not to grief,
because I know that once Spring rolls in again another flower will bloom,
the beautifuler the flower, the longer it stays bloomed,
But why must I continue on to this process,
when will I find the flower that does not die out?
a beautiful flower that is forever blooming.
Life is but a dream they say, but I say it is more like a nightmare-
leading up to getting buried 6 feet deep in earth
only to wake up to judgment for all of the sins you committed
As I hit the road once again to change the self,
I'm hoping that this one won't have any potholes or ditches.
Memorable is the one that got away. There was she was one day sitting on the pedestal,
on the throne - your queen. Now she has vanished, gone,
nowhere to be seen. You have abandoned her,
you have left her for your own pride and ambitions.
Once gone she will not return. Another door closes,
then another opens, where it leads to- who knows?
Bullet shell casings on the floor, gun-smoke in the air.
My ears deafened because of the loud shellings from the machine gun.
Moqadishu is the location, 1990 is the year.
Memories of dressing up for Eid is all I have.
Trying to go to school with the rest of my siblings but being too young.
The journey has took its toll on the mind, body, and soul.
On the back of my mind, I Wish beautiful Mogadishu will bloom again.
Bloom forever like the forever blooming flower.
I do not plunge into despair because the rose withers,
I have been down that path and have learned not to grief,
because I know that once Spring rolls in again another flower will bloom,
the beautifuler the flower, the longer it stays bloomed,
But why must I continue on to this process,
when will I find the flower that does not die out?
a beautiful flower that is forever blooming.
Life is but a dream they say, but I say it is more like a nightmare-
leading up to getting buried 6 feet deep in earth
only to wake up to judgment for all of the sins you committed
As I hit the road once again to change the self,
I'm hoping that this one won't have any potholes or ditches.
Memorable is the one that got away. There was she was one day sitting on the pedestal,
on the throne - your queen. Now she has vanished, gone,
nowhere to be seen. You have abandoned her,
you have left her for your own pride and ambitions.
Once gone she will not return. Another door closes,
then another opens, where it leads to- who knows?
Bullet shell casings on the floor, gun-smoke in the air.
My ears deafened because of the loud shellings from the machine gun.
Moqadishu is the location, 1990 is the year.
Memories of dressing up for Eid is all I have.
Trying to go to school with the rest of my siblings but being too young.
The journey has took its toll on the mind, body, and soul.
On the back of my mind, I Wish beautiful Mogadishu will bloom again.
Bloom forever like the forever blooming flower.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Deeqo: Ogaden Freedom Fighter
I wrote a poem last year, and it still rings bells about the injustice in the Ogaden region (see: www.SaveOgaden.org) - the hidden genocide being committed by the U.S.-backed Ethiopian regime.
Don't mind the low volume, this was recorded on my macbook and wasn't really going to youtube it. Please shed light to the genocide in the Ogaden region. Thanks!
She said she was a freedom fighter/
She said so was Aabo and awoowe/
So was adeer and aboowe/
Nineteen years old, this is her story/
Filled with too many tragedies and not enough glory/
Before Aabo left this world, he thought her one lesson/
Always fight for self-determination and progression/
Every night she would have a confession/
Talking to God intimately, wishing how she can wish her way out of this oppression/
What can lead her people out of this physical and mental depression?/
At a young age, Aabo gave her the answer to that question/
You see Aabo gave her an AK, Dark, dull, black and metal gray/
Even though she was a child then, she knew well enough this was not childs play/
From its obvious decay/
You can tell it was so old it was probably used back in the Balkan days/
Yes it needed some shining and she promised she would kill the enemy with it in any way/
When Logic fails and all else does too, emotions gives way/
She knew this tool can bring you temporary joy or utter dismay/
The latter came, Aabo left, four brothers too, her, hooyo and baby sis can only pray/
You see what you hear, is what they say/
What you see is what they want you to see/
You can only stand injustice to a tolerable degree/
Deeqo, AK in hand, is a perfect example of an opponent of pre-destiny/
Liberation is at the forefront of her motivation/
5 times a day in prostration/
Heart is heavy, how she continues there is no explanation/
While we are in December and wishing we got better presents/
Rolling alongside the landscape with militaristic peasants,
Baby sis in heaven, Deeqa and hooyo still struggle in those unforgiveable deserts/
They call them rebels, she calls them FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
Copyright © 2009
Don't mind the low volume, this was recorded on my macbook and wasn't really going to youtube it. Please shed light to the genocide in the Ogaden region. Thanks!
She said she was a freedom fighter/
She said so was Aabo and awoowe/
So was adeer and aboowe/
Nineteen years old, this is her story/
Filled with too many tragedies and not enough glory/
Before Aabo left this world, he thought her one lesson/
Always fight for self-determination and progression/
Every night she would have a confession/
Talking to God intimately, wishing how she can wish her way out of this oppression/
What can lead her people out of this physical and mental depression?/
At a young age, Aabo gave her the answer to that question/
You see Aabo gave her an AK, Dark, dull, black and metal gray/
Even though she was a child then, she knew well enough this was not childs play/
From its obvious decay/
You can tell it was so old it was probably used back in the Balkan days/
Yes it needed some shining and she promised she would kill the enemy with it in any way/
When Logic fails and all else does too, emotions gives way/
She knew this tool can bring you temporary joy or utter dismay/
The latter came, Aabo left, four brothers too, her, hooyo and baby sis can only pray/
You see what you hear, is what they say/
What you see is what they want you to see/
You can only stand injustice to a tolerable degree/
Deeqo, AK in hand, is a perfect example of an opponent of pre-destiny/
Liberation is at the forefront of her motivation/
5 times a day in prostration/
Heart is heavy, how she continues there is no explanation/
While we are in December and wishing we got better presents/
Rolling alongside the landscape with militaristic peasants,
Baby sis in heaven, Deeqa and hooyo still struggle in those unforgiveable deserts/
They call them rebels, she calls them FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
Copyright © 2009
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