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If They Come for Us
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Fatimah Asghar7,732 ratings, 4.24 average rating, 1,089 reviews
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“Everyone wants Kashmir but no one wants Kashmiris.
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come.
I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.”
― If They Come for Us
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come.
I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.”
― If They Come for Us
“Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers.”
― If They Come for Us
― If They Come for Us
“How many poems must you write to convince yourself you have a family? Everyone leaves and you end up the stranger.”
― If They Come for Us
― If They Come for Us
“when'd the west set in your bones? you survive
each winter like you were made for snow, a stranger
to each ancestor who lights your path. your parents,
dead, never taught you their language -- stranger
to everything that tries to bring you home.”
― If They Come for Us
each winter like you were made for snow, a stranger
to each ancestor who lights your path. your parents,
dead, never taught you their language -- stranger
to everything that tries to bring you home.”
― If They Come for Us
“Mashallah I claim them all
my country is made
in my people's image
if they come for you they
come for me too...
… I see you map
my sky the light your lantern long
ahead & I follow I follow”
― If They Come for Us
my country is made
in my people's image
if they come for you they
come for me too...
… I see you map
my sky the light your lantern long
ahead & I follow I follow”
― If They Come for Us
“Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers.”
― If They Come for Us
― If They Come for Us
“I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone.”
― If They Come for Us
― If They Come for Us
“I'm ten//and haven't been hugged in a long time./Allah made a barrier between me & my/mom./Ullu makes a barrier between me & my aunt.//When he leaves we sit at the base of the blue/wall/& I laugh loud so Auntie A knows/I'm alive & okay & she laughs loud so I know//she hasn't left & we sit like this for hours,/hands/pressed to the felt, laughing, laughing/unable to see each other.”
― If They Come for Us
― If They Come for Us
“Mashallah I claim them all
my country is made
in my people's image
if they come for you they
come for me too... I see you map
my sky the light your lantern long
ahead & I follow I follow”
― If They Come for Us
my country is made
in my people's image
if they come for you they
come for me too... I see you map
my sky the light your lantern long
ahead & I follow I follow”
― If They Come for Us
“Old Country Buffet, where our family went on the days we saved enough money.
...Here, our family reveled in the American way of waste, manifest destinied our way through the mac & cheese...”
― If They Come for Us
...Here, our family reveled in the American way of waste, manifest destinied our way through the mac & cheese...”
― If They Come for Us
“Do all survivors carry villian inside them?”
― If They Come for Us
― If They Come for Us
