Maha Bali’s blog about education
If I could close this door And never open it again Lock myself out And throw away the key Would I find a window Out of this ro
That hour Early in the morning Right before dawn Just me and God and darkness And then just me and myself Before anyone wakes
This isn’t your life You’re living These aren’t your choices You’re making This isn’t your time
Now I know What it’s like to have first world problems While living in a third world…world Now I know It wasn̵
All talk And no reasons All talk And no reasoning All talk Broadcast not dialogue All talk Watching not seeing All talk Hearin
There’s a soul that comes with this body And nurturing it won’t cost a thing There’s a soul that comes with
Republished from Identity, Education and Power (which was published on Medium in July 2016; I’m republishing because I n
Open matters Because some of us live inside these walls Locked inside And we don’t have the key Open matters Becau
I can’t speak about this directly, so I’m writing this poem instead. Don’t ask what this is about, I’m
When you come to our country we treat you like tourists When we go to your country you treat us like terrorists We treat