No
No
I had a desire to be a martyr to my word
To quench my desire for justice with the
Peak of my poor pen
To quash intolerance, racism, tribalism, tyranny
And quell my cowardice and my people’s
Stigma and egoism
I had a desire to be a martyr to my word
To break up with my people’s demoralizing jokes
That are ignorance and human rights’
Violation
I had a desire to oppose the patriarchal society
Of thousands of egoisms
With its uprooted self-absorbed traditional emirates
Hedged around with blindly and worldly pseudo-scholars
Who help to spread heinous racial prejudices
On the indigenous people
No to nepotism, tribalism, ethnocentrism, and tyranny
No to all the diktates of the outlaw
Who call themselves emirs in the republic!
Jaafar S El Waad
2014
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