They took me beyond away
Far from my dearest family
Stamping fresh life into dirt
Stripping away shrouded dignity,
With the coldest of mirth
Confined without a wrong
Locked in an oppression, for oh so long
Holding tightly onto everything I believe
No compassion, no one to grieve
They shout and they scream
Ripping hearts into a blood stream
They won’t leave us in peace
Brothers and sisters, bereaved
Tears leave our beginnings
Crying out desperate meanings
Rivers of sadness through the blood on our cheeks
Oh Almighty Allah, only your help do we seek
Torture sessions become our sense of time
Keys as they open prison gates, sing a rhyme
‘We’ve come to bring out offenders, who’ve been here so long. Shackled by the chains, of our evil hate song
We can’t wait to get hold of them, increase their sorrow
And we’ll do it again, worse every morrow.’
Disintegrating, in these prison cells
Dying, in a living hell
Their deeds slash through our scarred skin
As if to be treated human, is a major sin
Days, months, years, one special life
Our souls have long left us, beautiful as kites
Here lay only our flesh, strewn in mass protest
Eaten away by madness and owning nothing less
Oh Allah make them free as birds…
To soar in the sky, without a care in the world
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Written by Juhayfa Bint Shoaib
Prisoners of Faith 
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