I am not a he

I am a she

I am Hagia Sophia

I am wisdom

 

On every day that dawns

With my tears

I water the flowers of the nations

 

I reach

I teach

I preach

I repeat

I reiterate

 

I am peace

I please

I tease

I ease

I release

You all

From your ignorance

From your arrogance

 

I am not a he

I am a she

I am Hagia Sophia

I am wisdom

 

My ways are the ways of pleasantness

My ways are all the paths of peace

 

I am the voice crying out in the wilderness

Prepare ye

The way of the Lord

The way of the Prince of Peace

I cry out in the streets

Against the folly that governs the world

I cry out in the streets:

I am wisdom

I am it

I am above the Yankee dullard dollar

I am the principal thing

“Therefore go get wisdom

And with all thy getting get understanding.”

 

I am not a he

I am a she

I am Hagia Sophia

I am wisdom

 

I am not

That evil greedy fugly big blind ninny of a mouth

That shied away

That fell asleep

Because

He had feasted on the carcass of the Somali nation

 

I do not hem

I do not haw

I do not heehaw like my Darod donkey

I do not shirk

I do not shoot off my mouth

I do not shoot from the hip

I do not shoot from the lip

I cannot be shushed

I do not shilly-shally

I do not willy-wally

I cannot be waylaid

 

I shall not be moved

Till together we storm the gates of heaven

With this our prayer

With this our song

I shall not be moved

Till God heals us all

With peace beyond our fears

With peace beyond our tears

I shall not be moved

Till God heals us all

With hope beyond our clannish hate

With hope beyond our measureless melancholy

I shall not be moved

Till God Himself lifts up our heavy hearts 

Till God Himself fills our mouths with laughter

Till God Himself makes our tongues ring with singing

 

I am not a he

I am a she

I am Hagia Sophia

I am wisdom

I am your teacher

 

Repeat after me

Repeat after our teacher

Repeat after our own Canadian F. R. Scott:

 

The world is my country

The human race is my race

The spirit of man is my God

The future of man is my heaven.

                                           ----Mahamud Siad Togane