Nina Abdul Razzak: Neutral
Neutral
(May 17, 2021)
Whenever a question about you comes up
I’m expected to remain neutral,
Whether it be in what I say, write, post, comment, like, or follow.
But how? Just how am I supposed to be neutral
When even before I was born
I was involved in your question?
I was involved by being uprooted from you my homeland
Before even setting eyes on you.
As, my parents, their parents, and all of my people
Were intentionally and violently
Terrorized and expelled from your lands
To an absolute no return.
My whole life was then predestined for me,
Determined by the status of ‘refugee’.
Its whole path was planted with many hardships,
alienation, and pain,
With me stranded in every direction of God’s world
Except that leading back to you.
So, neutrality that is being asked of me now
Is simply a dead option,
Just like it has always been
Ever since day one of my existence.
As, neutrality and involvement can never coincide,
Especially not when my refugee status continues to be as is…
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