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  • My Sins Block my Du'a

    by Abdul Salaam Abu Lo As I sit here alone, The tears rolling down my face It is not salt, but pain that I taste… So I leave now to go Stand before You I am helpless and alone, What else can I do? I have asked, I have begged But my sins block my…

  • Contradictions

    Contradictions

    by Ahmed Salah See I’m a nigga  trynna prove to y’all that I’m the lyricist The mentalist The nemesis Im mad bout everything Hip hop iz dead & I really think dat nobody cares Dem Youth been puffing dat herb & I’m saying who fucking cares Governmental shit manipulate some men hypnotize their minds to…

  • Weaponz

    Weaponz

    by Ahmed Salah A bunch of gunz were together reminiscing Thinking bout how many lives they killed or those who gone missin AK-47 started saying I’m the illest In one second 15 of my bulletz  can fly switching lives from livin to vividly kickin the soul outta the body division But the magnum started showing…

  • Dear

    Dear

    by Sadig Gasim Mukhayer Dear Misery, I’m writing you first, because you’re always there. Though many fear you, I have grown accustomed to you, and as you love company, so do I so I keep you close, as close as I’d keep a lover, possibly closer, because a lover may leave, but you are always there.…

  • Untitled

    Untitled

    by Tasneem Nagi 2 كان واقفاً هناك، في زاوية الغرفة قبالة النافذة، وقميصه ذو الخطوط السوداء الطولية ينقصه زر أشهق مصارعة ضجيج أعماقي بحثاً عن منفذ لنفس هواء، أتأمله وهو يسند جسده النحيف الى الحائط بنصف انهزام بينما تحوم سحب دخان سجائره حول رأسه كنسور تحلق فوق جثة وسط الفوضى التي قادتني إلى هنا لم…

  • Execution day

    Execution day

    by Ahmed Salah Hiz story waz on the 17th of November 1995 This waz an event that flipped my life It waz the day that I started to recognize Today iz the the day of hiz demise Az hiz lawyer I waz mesmerized I expected tearz from hiz eyez But He waz so damn calmed…

  • The Problem!!

    The Problem!!

    by Abdul Salaam Abu Lo What is the problem? We can’t have peace? We have to find the answer… To stop, desistand decease. If something is really biting you It’s not right to pass it on. Every single person’s got a problem It always comes… and then it’s gone. If you pass on your problem, And…

  • Him

    Him

    by Bel He intrudes, invades My quiet existence Penetrates my walls Stuns me with his brilliance The flames of his perfection Lick away at my core. My world is set ablaze When he is gone I am left with darkness Ashes And the tiny pieces Of what was For the briefest of moments, An overjoyed,…

  • She Left Beauty…

    She Left Beauty…

    by Maabad Said (Temple) She left beauty… Wherever she went A scent, a sensation Like she was heaven-sent A testament To test my sentiments My morality couldn’t comprehend My vanity never felt so redundant nor stressed She threw my insides into an abundant mess A intricate mesh of interchanging emotions Occasionally opposing Infinitely complex So…

  • The Acrobat's Flight

    The Acrobat's Flight

    by Maabad Said (Temple) To fly… He was always infatuated Oh, how he envied the birds To sprout wings… And enjoy the gentle caress Of nothingness Every night he’d be a raven Or an eagle soaring Then brutally awakened With the sense that he was falling He’d curse and vow… One day he would fly But…