POEM Go Back Home - A Canadian Muslim's Response

Go Back Home - A Canadian Muslim's Response
by William C King

This poem is in response to a man who stopped his truck on Spring Garden Road in Halifax. Stepping out of it, he approached me coming close to my face he stared in my eyes and told me, "Go back to where you came from!"

I was born in Halifax, NS over 40 years ago. My mother was from Newfoundland, while my father was born in Nova Scotia.

One of the reasons that we started this website and encourage people to take the 20 questions quiz is because fear and lack of understanding lead to hate and escalation. We wish to educate and DE-escalate. We encourage everyone to take the quiz ( Islam20questions.org )

This is my reply to him:


You told me straight into my eyes
Go back home to where you came
My friend, why don't you realize
That this hate is just so lame

I was born here I said to you
"A traitor" you came back
All this in less than minute two
How do you know me? To attack

Go home? Was it my beard I wore
That brought out your angry sneer
I have a feeling that your hate galore
Stems from ignorance and fear

Your grandfather to me you said
Fought not so I could speak
My voice, about the life I led
And the life today I keep

I say to you that I represent
The epitome of why we must
Exercise the freedom spent
Of your grandfather in trust

Please be careful what you say
To you this land to judge?
You decide who gets to stay?
But for you "First Nations" budge

My right as child of Adam; Eve
The Earth; My sisters and my brothers
Established in my faith, my creed
Human family above all others

My face I place upon the ground
My call to the Creator
Allah, One God his name I sound
REFLECT: English came a little later

Jesus, Moses, Abraham, John
Beards upon each face
Now is met like something's wrong
Their style so out of place

Please don't simmer in your hate
A heavy burden of the heart
There is but only one escape
Education is a start!

Educate before you hate
Fear leads to bad reaction
Take our quiz, open the gate
Be human - not abstraction

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[naelibra]

In the end, we'll all go back to where we came from.....earth!

[HaligonianType1]

mashAllah... Jazakallah khair for this.