I was roaring with pain
At those shadows surrounding me
In the middle of this jungle
Below the blue sky
I was struck with a harpoon
Of truth and diligence
Stuck deep into my skin
Into the flesh, blood and bones
The shadows smiled all the way
Looking at me die under the sky
In the darkness of woods
And in the middle of gods
I was roaring aloud
For someone on the other side
To show them everything is fine
With everything that’s not fine
The shadows were of my friends and relations
Of my wife and children
Of this whole bunch of societies
Made of traditional sin
I do not regret what I am now
For what I do not want to be, makes me smile
Though it pains all the way
To where I am now
On death bed with kith and kin around
Looking at me harvesting my mind
It takes a lot for a man to die
And lay life for himself
For the truth he believes in
For the ways he walk on
Its takes immense valor to love thyself
More than to hate others
I did so
I tried to be so
And I die now
In the presence of these wild eyes
Though they love me
They want me to die
For I love myself more
Than they could hate anything else
I will still be me
In these last hours
And wait for the blood to drain off my veins
Filling them with emptiness
Filling them with benevolence
Filling them with my dreams
For I will rise back to a new shape
On a new road
With new freedom all around.
-Aroon Che