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- [SW Column] ( Ahmed Hamud - Courtesy HOL) I am a Warlord :Posted on
2 Nov 2002
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I am a Hustler
I am a Holy Man
I am a Marine
I am a Moryaan
I am a Dottore
I am a Driver
I am: what I wannabe
I am a Warlord
I prey on the weak
Steal from the poor
Rob from the dead
Kill and rape
Pillage and burn
I am a Warlord!
I inject pain
Administer sorrow
I Relish the agony of grieving mothers
The lament of defeated fathers
The vanishing glimpse of a wasted child
I am a Warlord!
I am a locust
I chew on cables and concrete
Munch on signatures of history
Wreck havoc on monuments and museums
Harvest gold and silver from the dead
I am a Warlord!
I am a bulldozer
I destroy and devastate
Steal the gifts of God
Harvest the birds and the bees
Poison the seas
Cut the trees
I Cultivate hunger and hate
I am a Warlord!
I Sow and sell substance that kill
Peddle doomed aspirin to cousins and kin
Trade dead-trees carcasses to Shaytaans and Sheikhs
I am a Warlord
When implored to stop
Told not to kill and steal
Not to destroy and rape
Told not to reap the wrath of God
I shrug and laugh
Roar and roll
Peek at my crystal ball
See an enemy bleep
I flash my clan card
Dawn my Reer 1 jacket
Peek at my crystal ball
And yell Tola=eey! Tola=eey! 2
Cousins and kin!
Sons of mighty men of yore!
In Mogadishu and Minnesota
Resist and fight!
The enemy is near!
The end is here!
I am a Warlord
When the dust settles
And the dough is down
The bullet scarce
I flash the peace sign
Recite the Quraan
Don my three-piece suit
Jump on a plane
And call upon the Man
I am a Warlord!
When I return to my den
I return to what I do best
Prey on the weak
Steal from the poor
Rob from the dead
Kill and rape
Pillage and burn
I am a Warlord!
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1. Reer : clan-family in Somali
2. Tola=eey! Tola=eey! : Calling the clan to arms
®Ahmed Hamud
Toronto, Canada, circa 2001
E-mail: ajhamud@yahoo.com
Ahmed is the Author of
'Cry With Me ' Ila oey! '
'Cry With Me' focused on the victims of the Somali tragedy whereas 'I am a
Warlord' is an attempt to expose the mindset of one of the prime
perpetrators of these crimes.
My thanks to Amin Amir for allowing me to use his cartoon as a graphica
complement to the poem
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