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Annotated the Sides
by Hannah Janicke
You may feel powerful
Sitting atop your throne of
Male-White-Christian
Separateness
But I’ve been blessed with
The ability to see what you are too
Scared to see
“The Muslims are terrorists, they
Burn Christians. The Quran is evil.
Muslims pray to the east and west-
Their false God.”
I’ve been born into Islamophobia, yet
I saw through it when I was young.
Naturally, curiously,
I ordered an English Quran
Online, to learn about this religion
When my fathers lips
spew out hatred,
I see a demon
Caressing his soul
While he gets indignant,
I watch a demon
Cloak his body in a suit
and veil his eyes so that
He can no longer see
Anything other than
what’s in his mind
I offer to loan him my Quran
So he can see that
Muslims and Christians are quite
Alike actually, I even
Highlighted the passages of peace
With this,
He flew into a rage,
“Why have you read the Quran
Page for page but you
Have not read the Bible
Front to back?”
Calmly responding to his attack,
I said, “Actually, I have. Many times,
and I even annotated the sides.”
He doesn’t see through
the opaque veil
Over his eyes
When you’re busy pointing out
A speck in your brother’s eye,
You don’t even realize
That you too have
A bigger one in yours
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