Explosive <3

This piece was performed countless times in countless locations. The video performance included was in the MYNA Jam during the ISNA convention in Chicago, IL. 

BOOM!
The fire spreads across 
The hearts of the ones who haven't seen
But they’ve heard

BOOM! 
The smoke constricts
The minds of the ones who breathe in
With no exhale

BOOM!
It wasn't me
BOOM!
It wasn't me
BOOM!
It wasn't me

Boom.

Yet you still believe
That what I believe 
Is in killing sprees
And bombing people 
And to violently
Push forth my evils
And that I can't see
The pain I bring
To the not guilty
For ‘affiliating’ with
Islamist extremists
And for believing in
What I believe in
Yet you can't see

It wasn't me
It wasn't me 
It wasn't me

I was actually less than three
When I had to face the TV
With biased rumors on the screen
Telling me who I was to be
Yet here I am, standing
With my guts dropped to my knees
Wondering whether my next words will kill me
Even though I know

It wasn’t me
It wasn’t me
It wasn’t me

I just want the lies to stop

There’s nothing to gain
Except for my pain
But I don't know why I strain
Like I’m shackled in chains
They think I’m Islamically insane
While I try to board an airplane
They crane their necks to stare
Like I’m a stain
On a plain 
White.
Shirt.
I feel so ashamed
But who am I to complain!
I’m so inhumane
Haven’t you heard?
My father’s Bin Laden
My mother? 

Sadam Hussein!

Ha! Do you have nothing left in your brain
or did I blow that up too?

I mean, I have better things to do 
than to argue about these political campaigns
Like I don’t know, 
have a social life
all while maintaining a 4.2 GPA
God, the blood is boiling through my veins
Oh! There it goes again
someone went and bombed a train

Hey, I see you
Don’t look my way
It was loud and clear
I heard it too
It went like

BOOM! 
It wasn't me
BOOM!
It wasn't me
BOOM!
It wasn't me

Boom.

-​Hawa Rahman