Not Mine To Take
My life is not yours to take
Your life is not my to take
Your life is not my to take
Not in the middle of the night
When you lay asleep
Not at your dinner table
Surrounded by family, wife and kids
Your life is not my to take
Not with a knife in an alleyway
While you make your way home
To a waiting mother
Little brother, sister eager to share their day
Your life is not my to take
Not a with a gun
That rips through flesh
Shattering bones and ribs
Shattering hopes and dreams
My life is not yours to take
Your life is not my to take
Your life is not my to take
Not while you are at work
Making ends meet to feed mouth depending on you
Not at your place of pleasure
Where you unwind from this stressful world
Your life is not my to take
Not with a suicide vest
While you stand unaware
Or at a moment of terror
Before light out
Your life is not my to take
Not at 36000 feet from the ground
Causing a wreck
That leaves your family no body
To mourn over or buried
My life is not yours to take
Your life is not my to take
Your life is not my to take
For your life belongs to Allah
Who created you and I
He decree in His Book
“To take a life is to kill the whole of humanity…. To save a life is to save the whole of humanity”
So my life is not yours to take
And your life is not my take
For our life belongs to our creator
Allah
Copyright © Ibrahim Bashiru | Year Posted 2017
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