You deserve to wake up and smile because of your beautiful, bright, bold soul.
You deserve to laugh loudy and feel fusion of fluttering in your tummy.
You deserve to shy away and cover your rose-pink face.
You deserve to feel raw, ruddy, real emotion only with positive and pure intentions.
You deserve success due to your persevering, powerful  power house.
You deserve sincere care due to your pious purity.
You deserve to be fed with flavoursome fruits and nourished emotionally and physically.
You deserve to be put on a pedestal like a clear celestial body.
You deserve the truth and not to be fooled by equivocation from three weird sisters.
You deserve someone to pump oxygen into your heart and not deprive it of tenderness.
You're worth more than millions upon billions.
If anyone can't see the love you deserve, remove them you're an
Oscar Award.
You deserve it all-
But I'm not  good or the best.

I am the worst.

-Nuha Alli

You scan me
With your Western eye
Standing tall, clinging
To your elitist lie.

With your righteous mission,
You desire is to teach me,
Yearning for my submission,
Refusing to free me.

The lies you tell yourself
Do not deceive me;
You claim to make me more,
While forcing less of me.

More?
More ‘educated’
More ‘cultured’
More ‘literate’
More Western.

More you, less me.

The volume of my voice
Is not primitive, nor savage
It is my culture, my heritage,
Which you have ravaged.  

My culture, my language,
My education, my literature,
Are slowly eradicated
By the standards of worth
You have dictated.

My language is not irrelevant,
Nor menacing.
It is my heritage, my legacy,
Tainted by your supremacy;
It is not powerful as Athena,
Rather it burns with the fiery
Passion of Nuha.

I will not be silenced,
I will not lightly tread,
For those who fake alliance,
Whilst wishing me dead.

Deities of the ancient Near East
Ancient Egyptian: Amun Apis Atum Buchis
Geb Horus Isis Montu Nephthys Nut Osiris
Ptah Ra Set Shu Tefnut Thoth

Arabian: Allah Aglibol Abgal al-Lat al-Qaum
al-‘Uzzá Atarsamain Athtar Baalshamin
Bēl Dhul Khalasa Dushara Hubal Malakbel
Manaf Manāt Nasr Nuha Orotalt Ruda Suwa'
Theandrios Wadd Ya'uq Yaghūth Yarhibol                                      Yatha
Levantine (Canaanite): Adonis Anat Asherah Ashima Astarte Atargatis Attar Baal Berith Chemosh Dagon El Elyon Eshmun Gad Hadad Kothar-wa-Khasis Melqart Moloch Mot Nikkal Qetesh Resheph Shadrafa Shahar Shalim Shapash Yam Yahweh Yarikh Elamite  Inshushinak Jabru Khumban Kiririsha Lahurati Nahundi Napir Ninsusinak Pinikir
Mesopotamian: Abzu/Apsu Adad Amurru An/Anu Anshar Ashur Enki/Ea Enlil Ereshkigal Inanna/Ishtar/Ishtarat Kingu Kishar Lahamu Lahmu Marduk Mummu Nabu Nammu Nanna/Sin Nergal Ningishzida Ninhursag Ninlil Tiamat Utu/Shamash
Religions of the ancient Near East
Anatolia Ancient Egypt Arabia Canaan   Persia
Mesopotamia Sumer Semitic; Ancient Semitic       religion encompasses the
    polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples
from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa.
Since the term Semitic itself represents a rough
category when referring to cultures, as opposed
to languages, the definitive bounds of the term
"ancient Semitic religion"  are only approximate.

Semitic traditions   and their pantheons
fall into regional categories: Canaanite religions of the Levant, Sumerian tradition-inspired Assyro-Babylonian religion of Mesopotamia, and Arabian polytheism. Semitic polytheism possibly transitioned into Abrahamic monotheism by way of the god El, whose name "El" is a word for "god" in Hebrew, cognate to Arabic Allah.

Abbreviations: Ac. Akkadian-Babylonian; Ug. Ugaritic;
Pp. Phoenician; Ib. Hebrew; Ar. Arabic; OSA Old South Arabian; Et. Ethiopic

ʼIlu - "god" (Sky god, head of pantheon: Ac. Ilu, Ug. il, Pp. ʼl/Ēlos, Ib. El/Elohim, Ar. Allāh, OSA ʼl).
ʼAṯiratu - (Ilu's wife: Ug. aṯrt, Ib. Ašērāh, OSA ʼṯrt) - The meaning of the name is unknown. She is also called ʼIlatu "goddess" (Ac. Ilat, Pp. ʼlt, Ar. Allāt).
ʻAṯtaru - (God of Fertility: Ug.
ʻṯtr, OSA ʻṯtr, Et. ʻAstar sky god).
ʻAṯtartu - (Goddess of Fertility:
Ac. Ištar, Ug. ʻṯtrt, Pp. ʻštrt / Astarte,
Ib. ʻAštoreṯ). The meaning of the
name is unknown and not related to ʼAṯiratu.
Haddu/Hadadu - (Storm god: Ac.
Adad, Ug. hd, Pp. Adodos). The meaning
of the name is probably "thunderer".
This god is also known as Baʻlu "husband, lord"
(Ac. Bel, Ug. bʻl, Pp. bʻl/Belos, Ib. Baʻal).
Śamšu - "sun" (Sun goddess: Ug. špš, OSA:
šmš, but Ac. Šamaš is a male god).
Wariḫu - "moon" (Moon god: Ug.                                        yrḫ,
Ib. Yārēaḥ, OSA wrḫ).