Never in my life
Have I met a person more capable
Of accomplishing the near impossible
Than my mother
Raised me strong and resilient
Taught me what I needed to know
Going through pain I can hardly imagine
But to her, it’s all the same
As long as her children could grow up
Even if it was in a world where acceptance is hard
Where everything that should be wrong
Suddenly became right.
The person I respect most in my life
And the one that I trust with anything,
The never-ending examples of what to do
When the worst thing that
You never thought would happen
Happened.
I often wonder how a person
Without belief can feel the same emotions as a person with.
Belief brings with it
A sense of security and at the same time
Overwhelming emotion in me
To explain this to someone who wants only
To prove me wrong
And show me that what I think is illogical
Is hard
Because they don’t know what I feel.
They don’t know what I know.
Nor do they try to learn,
And as long as they persist in ignorance, they never will.
Knowledge is such a great thing. Many would agree, yes?
But some refuse a certain type of knowledge
The knowledge different from what they know.
I’ll let them live in their shining world, of fake reality
And rather not burst their bubble,
As my brothers and sisters around the world, at the hands of people
Worse than these, die silently everyday
In pursuit of what they believe.
Being raised a stranger
Knowing my real home was thousands of miles away
Waiting for my return
As it slowly crumbles into ruins
But what is a home? A place where you belong?
Or is it merely just where you live?
Or maybe, some place somewhere,
And you’ll never know what it meant
Until it’s gone
And even then, you may never know.
People say where you’re born is where you’re from
But what about where you’ve grown up?
You can speak a language, but will you belong to the people?
The answer to that, only the one asking can know
One day I will find out
If the home I knew still exists.
But until that day comes
I am a stranger in a country where no one belongs.
by Maidah QureshiLabels: Poem
