Editors' Note: This Poem is unique; unique because it is a lone voice in Somalia's wasteland of political and tribal violence, where Somalinimo is hard to find, and doubly unique because it reminds readers to reject the view that narrates only a single story (in the tradition described by the powerful Nigerian-born author, Chimamanda Adichie most recently "Single Story) about Somalia. The poet reminds some of those leaders in his homeland that Somalis are indeed people with more than a single story. As poet, Mohamed Ibrahim Hadrawi says, once upon a time, Somalis were rich, noble, working folks and, best of all, a community with a social contract (Xeer), who aspired to live with dignity. Their story is the sum total of all those attributes, and should not be defined by the single story of displacement and dislocation.

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Oh, Puntland, Oh, Puntland, bemused
I gape at the stars above you.

How dark it looks to see Somali’s lone star
disappearing from your sight!

I never thought I’d see the day,
“Farrole” poisoned the spirit of Mandeeq!

I never thought he’d crumble me into the ground to strip my Somalinas!
I never thought he’d send our brothers to harm’s way.

Now they are gone, I close my eyes and think of them, and how.
There was a time when I had doubt,
If he suffers from amnesia knowing I am his Somali brethren.

And what hurts the most is I now know how Tigray is his new kin and King.
I am left with emptiness but not defeat,
because, I am Somalia’s pride! Striving for the best!
We fought for the freedom you cherish in Putland.
A truth, Mr. Farrole will never know to admit.

And I will bear my guilt alone not knowing where
he’s left Somalia’s hero Sayid, and heroine Hawa Tako,
Perhaps they too had perished in his mist.

If he must know, we’ve been tested in ovens of hell.
Dignified and certified our will equaling to gold and diamond!

Freedom from Woyane ascendancy is a must for us,
We pray as well your kinship with Tigray to
forever flourish until death does you a part.

Sadiq Abdirahman
Email: Sabdira@gmail.com

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