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Fri, Mar 30 2012 17:32:20

Angryarabiya's Poem

Her moving poem about Injustice, Bahrain and her father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, on his 51st day of hunger strike

  1. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    While I was in prison, in the beginning of my fathers strike, I started writing something. A few days ago, I finished it #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 14:53:10
  2. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    I titled it "The Sultan Digs my Fathers Grave" and I want to share it with you all #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 14:55:31
  3. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    I watch in horror as, the Sultan digs my fathers grave. He Digs it deep and makes it narrow. Smiling... #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 14:57:02
  4. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    Smiling that the day will come, when he shall live in a towering castle, surrounded by the deafening silence of miserable obedient slaves
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 14:58:34
  5. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    I watch in horror, & I call to him: "Gravedigger, dig! but make the grave a little bigger. Dig for two and not for one... #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:00:07
  6. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    "...Make it so it fits us both, for I cud never step on the ground, if my father is buried under" #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:01:19
  7. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    I hear the Sultan cursing, his face all red with fury. He has found another seed he knows my father planted #bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:02:26
  8. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    He crushes the life out of it, and into the grave he throws it. Yet as he digs a home for death, hes blind to the seeds of life arnd him
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:04:05
  9. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    As tears of anger burn my cheeks, I feel a hand around my shoulder, I look into my fathers sad eyes. I see him smile, A sunrise #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:05:09
  10. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    "Dont despair" my father whispers, "You witness victory... Celebrate" #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:06:34
  11. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    "As the sultan sits in the dirt, tired of all the digging. He sees around him bones & bones, of sultans, emperors, kings & queens" #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:07:45
  12. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    "he sees with fear skulls & skulls, but no more crowns. A question arises: how to crawl out of a hole that he, had dug & dug & dug so deep?"
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:10:17
  13. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    From in his grave he looks up high & in the sky, the sultan sees a vision... #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:12:27
  14. angryarabiya
    angry arabiya@angryarabiya
    with giant wings, rising to the heavens, a man who is only skin & bones, & big dark eyes, and a tranquil smile #Bahrain
    Fri, Mar 30 2012 15:14:11

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