When some man tells you that you don’t’ belong here and that you should go back to where you came from.
Go!
Take your soul back to Africa, to Palestinian paradise. Take it as far back as possible!
Go! and call upon your ancestral Goddesses.
Call upon Dhat-Badan, who is the wild goat, sure-footedly roaming craggy territory. Who, in the middle of the desert of disdain helps you find an oasis of respect.
Call upon Lilith, who read the devil’s face, and walked away from him. Same as she did from abandoned Adam, who was ignorant towards the devil’s dangers.
Call upon Oya, whose natural passions, curse up a storm That makes men’s world shake. Who takes up her sickle of truth and cuts off all rotten crops of corruption.
Take the upper hand, trust your feet and dance upon rainbows after a storm! For that’s where you belong!
dedicated to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna S. Pressley