THE ONE PERMANENT VICTORY OF OUR QUEER RACE OVER CRUELTY & CHAOS
NOTA BENE: TO FULLY COMPREHEND WHAT FOLLOWS
MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY READ
THE PRECEDING PIECES:
(1) THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE MOXIE & THE PLUCKY
(2) THE EPIPHANY OF AHMED ISSE AWAD
THIS IS THE THIRD PIECE CALLED: THE ONE PERMANENT
VICTORY OF OUR QUEER RACE OVER CRUELTY & CHAOS
With wit and wisdom and imagination and love Ahmed turned that night
Into Layla tul Qadr
Into the Night of Glory
Into the Night of Power
Into the Night of Somali Unity of Spirit in the Bond of Peace
Into the Night of Awada Jàw Abgal
Into the Night of Decrees
Into the Night of Dignity
Into the Night of Destiny
Into the Night of Peace
Into the Night of the Angels and the Holy Spirit
That night Allah restored our collective national Somali Soul
That night I took heart
Because Ahmed showed that we don’t have to stay in the
Gutter with GREEDY-GUT GIDIR
Like glaring Galayrd did
That night I took courage
Because the Lord led Ahmed and I
In unity
In peace
In the path of righteousness for his name’s sake
Because the Lord taught Ahmed and I
How to be brothers
How to dwell together in the heaven of harmony
That was the night Ahmed followed the leading of Allah
Who can lead like Allah?
Who can teach like Allah?
That was the night Allah taught Ahmed
How to center himself in Allah
How to balance himself in Allah
How to deliver with Macavity Majerten Moxie
How to acquit himself
With aplomb
With poise
With polish
That night Ahmed miraculously
Chose God
Chose life over death
Chose hope over Darod Despair
Chose Peace over Belaayo
Chose me over his Macavity Majerten KKK
Chose my friendship over the fatuous crazy claims of his clan
That was the night Ahmed understood
The lament of the late Arthur Miller that
“The ultimate human mystery
May not be anything more than the claims on us
Of clan and race
Which may yet turn out to have the power
Because they defy the rational mind
To kill the world”
As they are busy now killing the Somali nation
That night God revealed
How amidst our crooked and perverse Somali nation
How few individuals
Like Ahmed
Like Awada Jàw Abgal
Can shine as lights
Amidst the clannish Demeaning Darkness of Somalia
How we can all work out our salvation in fear and trembling
That night Ahmed immortalized himself like Siyaad Togane
Who endeared himself to all Somalis by defiantly spitting
At the ‘Arkow
At the wob
Awada Jàw Abgal!
Only tonight do I deign to identify myself as an Agal!
That night Allah revealed to Ahmed
How we can finally put to an end
This clannish KKK sad senseless Somali saga
That was the night Ahmed chose not to be
A shill for the shitty Sharmuut called
Darod Demon Demean Druids of Darkness
That night Ahmed called us all
Out of the Clannish Prison
Out of the yoke of the bondage of Gidir Bililiqsi
To the dignity in the unity of all Somalis
In the Bonds of Peace and Brotherly Love
That was the night Allah taught Ahmed
How to rebuke the Devil
Whose other name is Diabolos
The Divider
Whose Blind Mouths are
The Gidir Greedy-Guts
The go-to goons like Glaring Galayrd
That was the night Allah taught Ahmed
How to put the clannish bastard Devil in his place
That night Ahmed thanked the Lord and took courage
Because Allah gave Ahmed
The boon
The benison
The blessing
The bounty
The benefaction
The baksheesh
The balance called Grace
That night I was privileged to behold Ahmed
Grow in the bliss of Grace
Glow in the splendor of his action of Grace
That Night of Power Allah revealed in Ahmed
The Vision of Hope for all of us Somalis
Out of the cul-de-sac of Klanish Kookiness
That night of Layla tul Qadr
At Ahmed I gazed
As his body of a sudden blazed
“It seemed, so great our happiness
That we were blessed and could bless”
That night I discovered
Our touchstone
Our talisman
Whose name is Ahmed Isse Awad
Who (with the help of Allah) can lead all of us Somalis
Out of our national nightmare
Out of our national clannish Abulia
To the way of Self-Surrender to Allah
To the way of Ibn Khaldun’s Assabiya
To sanity & solidarity
To sobriety & sagacity
To the renewal our mind
To the renewal of our strength
To the restoration of all of us Somalis
To Omar Eby’s Sense & Incense
That was the night Ahmed put on the armor of light
And cast off the clannish crazy works of the Demean Druids of Darkness
With his mind and moxie Ahmed communicated that night
What a night!
Ahmed communicated that night
How we Somalis can harvest the fruits of Layla tul Qadr
Which are love peace joy longsuffering gentleness
Which are goodness faith meekness temperance
Against such
Against which
No clannish cowardly coon can prevail
Against such
Against which
No clannish condom coterie or clique can prevail
O clannish death, where is thy sting?
O clannish grave, where is thy victory?
That was the night Ahmed received Peace from Allah
Who is
Who was
Who is to come
That night Ahmed grew
That night Ahmed glowed
In the Grace of God
In the knowledge of God
That night Ahmed let his light shine
To destroy the clannish Darkness of the Damers of Somalia
That night God taught Ahmed
A new song
The redemption song of the Somali Race
Who can teach like God?
That night we witnessed
Our troubles
Our tribulations
Work patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope
That was the night that we Somalis reaped the great recompense of reward
Recovering our national confidence
That we had cast away to the clannish swine the world calls warlords
That was the night Ahmed proved
That there was NOT enough clannish Darkness
In Somalia
In the world
To snuff out the little Light of one small candle called Ahmed
That night Ahmed mustered the courage and the strength
To finally put to a stop
Dead in its track
The lousy litany
Of the abtirtirsi-gustirtirsi
Of the boring patriarchal pricks and begats
That was the night Ahmed decided to leave
Some wit behind
Some witticisms behind
Some bonbons behind
Some bons mots behind
Some sanative sound behind
Since he was not going to live forever
Since his Somali days were not going to last forever
That was the night Ahmed suited up and showed up
That was the night Ahmed’s moxie mind stayed on Allah
And refused to be contained and incarcerated
In our silly Somali Clannish Crucible
That was the night Ahmed lived the Truth
That was the night Ahmed inhabited the Haqiiaqa
That was the night Ahmed achieved
The only way out which is the Truth
That was the night Allah established the word and the work of Ahmed Isse
That was the night Ahmed stopped “captive Good [from] attending Captain Ill”
That was the night Ahmed achieved his Somali Sultan Tima’adde Truth of
“Dugsi male qabyaaladi waxay dumiso mooyee:”
That posits most truly
That there is neither shade nor shelter under the tree called Qabiil
That under that Qabiil tree dwell only the Ruination of the Somali Nation
That was the night Ahmed showed his Somali strength
That was the night Ahmed delivered
Not like a clannish coon
That was the night Ahmed delivered
Like Un Uomo
That was the night Ahmed acquitted himself
Not like a clannish condom
That was the night Ahmed cast his clannish cargo upon the Lord
And the Lord sustained him as a true son of Somalia
That was the night Ahmed
Stood
Stood up
In quietness
In confidence
Stood his ground
Stood justified
Stood sanctified
In Allah
In his Faith
In Islam
Inside the Sanity of Somalia Hanolatto!
Shining in the glory of God
And delivered
And delivered us all Somalis
From the double-tongued Demons of Disaster
From the clannish cul-de-sac called Qabiil
That was the night Ahmed’s eyes of understanding were enlightened
That was the night Ahmed decided not to lean upon his own understanding
That was the night of
The descent of sakinah upon Ahmed
The descent of the Spirit of Peace upon Ahmed
That was the night Ahmed decided not to play the clannish game of Gotcha!
That was the night Ahmed decided to play the game of no game
Who can now separate Togane from Ahmed Isse Awad?
Who can now separate us Somalis from each other?
Shall tribulation
Or distress
Or persecution
Or famine
Or nakedness
Or peril
Or sword
Or Darod
Or Dir
Or Danyer
Or Damer
Or Dayuus
Or Dabaal
Or Demean
Or Doqon!?
No!
For I am persuaded
That neither death
Nor life
Nor angels
Nor principalities
Nor powers
Nor things present
Nor things to come
Nor height
Nor depth
Nor Habarkintir
Nor Habarkuulay
Nor any other creature
Shall be able to separate us Somalis
From each other
From the love
From the friendship
From the fellowship
We Somalis share
As Moslems
As Somalis
As members of the Umma
As the followers of Allah & Muhammad
Peace and blessings upon him
Who is the Key of Mercy
Who is the Key of Paradise
Who is the Spirit of Truth
Who is the Happiness of Allah
Muhammad
Peace and blessings upon him
Who proclaimed to all the world:
“Truly Allah made me
The Seal of the Prophets
While Adam was between water & clay!”
Ahmed and all of us Somalis
Who have the moxie and the mind and the love and the wit and the imagination
TO THINK
Beyond our cursed Somali KKK
Who if we had to choose
Between betraying our KKK and betraying our friends
Have the guts to betray our KKK
Belong to the “Aristocracy of the Sensitive, the Considerate and the Plucky
Whose members are to be found in all nations and classes
And all through the ages
And there is a secret understanding between us when we meet
We represent the true human tradition
The one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos”
That obtain now on much of our Mother Africa
Particularly in our home Somalia
With wit and imagination and love Ahmed demonstrated that night
How all of us Somalis can stop being
Too filthy, too bizarre, and too suicidal to deal with
How all of us Somalis can stop dividing each other against each other
Into crazy coonish cultish clownish crummy clans
How all of us Somalis can be winners and redeem our own souls
And the Soul of the Somali nation
Guided each step of the way
By the Almighty
By the power of example of Ahmed Isse Awad
For we wrestle not
Against flesh and blood but
Against principalities
Against powers
Against Habarkintir
Against Habarkuulay
Against clannish Whores
Against Demons of Darkness
Against Demean Dunces of Darkness
Against the rulers of the Darkness of this world
Against spiritual wickedness in high places
With wit and imagination and love Ahmed Isse Awad showed us that night
How all of us Somalis can celebrate
Our permanent victory
Our permanent release
Our permanent redemption
From the clannish hell called Qabiil iyo Qoriga Madow
From the lie called Tolla’ay!
From the primitive beast-titude of
Our kinsmen, right or wrong!
That night Ahmed set his affections on things above
And not on things below of the Greedy-Gut Gidir in the Gutter
That is why I wept tears of joy
That night Ahmed’s communication led
To commitment
To the beloved Somali Community of the future
To understanding
To intimacy
To mutual valuing
That Night of Glory Allah taught Ahmed and I
A lesson we will never forget as long as we live
As Job asked
Who teacheth
Like The Almighty?
Like Allah?
Like God?
With wit and imagination and love Ahmed Isse Awad showed us that night
How all of us Somalis can join hands and sing
In the words of that old Negro spiritual
Free at last!
Free at last!
Thank God Almighty we are free at last!
With wit and imagination and love Ahmed Isse Awad showed us that night
How all of us Somalis can join hands and sing in triumph
O clannish Death, where is thy sting?
O clannish grave, where is thy victory?”
