A solace amidst the madness of massacre.

This is for the mothers

Who have had to witness their screaming, bleeding babies ripped out of their very hands

This is for the fathers

Who have had to live through the pain of trying to protect a family from something they cannot control

This is for the husbands

Who have been made to put up with the torture of seeing their own wives brutally raped

This is for the wives

Who have been beaten,

used as virtual war toys

This is for the children

Who have to put up with the psychological want for power, our corruption.

Who have to be the victim of every atrocity they were never involved in

This is for the children who still manage to smile through the rubble

Clearing the dust that may have blocked the sun and just letting the hope

filter in

For the children who’ve been forced into adulthood before adolescence

This is for the youth

Who have left everything

To fight, to put up with the torture, the death, the depression,

Who have willingly set themselves up to be killed- or worse: “taken in” - just so that they may proclaim

“7urriyya.”

This is for the bystanders

Those who know of the massacres but can find absolutely nothing to do but pray

And prayer is our greatest weapon

This is for humanity

That little beating voice that insists, “Do not hush my freedom”

That massive jolt of inspiration

Through blood, sweat, and tears

Towards justice.

This is hope talking

Hope is speaking to you.

Hope has not yet abandoned you.

Justice will be served

I swear by God, The Avenger, that justice will be served

And that the good in people will remain in the people

And for the people

No matter what the sadistic ones have tried

Humanity cannot be cleansed out of us

It will linger

It might falter.

But it is there

And through the deafening bombs

Through the supposed “war” tactics

Through the newborn babies crying from the pain induced by shrapnel

God’s Name is etched in every plan

There will be a day when we all step forth

And every innocent will be rewarded their sum

And every oppressor will be cast away to rot in the depths of hell for what he thought would go unnoticed

Hold onto that

And remember,

remember 

not to let the bitterness of this world drag you down into the depths of numbness

rather let it motivate you.

Know that it is when you take everything away from the people that they become most powerful

When they have nothing to lose but their dignity and freedom

they will fight 

We have the power of Allahu Akbar.

God is our witness

And by God, there is nothing we need more than that

Freedom is imminent.

 Yes, God willing.

It's all sinking in.

         .....Freedom       is inevitable.