One of our Afghan students is an aspiring rapper. He has shared one of his raps with us. It is about his experience in the Turkish refugee camps and the hardships he overcame while living there. Below is the audio, below that are a rough translation of the lyrics.
Lyrics
I’m back again with my rejection on the brain
Despite the grief and pain of your tired body
I wrote and I know you’re feeling bad
You are nostalgic and nothing can calm you
You’re not in the mood, and you hate this world and its people too
With a pen and paper all the night you are awake until morning
You write because you have words to say like me
You know when I am writing I am feeling better
The paper is saying to my pen, write I’m his best friend
I was worried, I was afraid of many things in my life until I experienced them, and now I have not fear for them
I was afraid to be alone, I learned to love myself, I was afraid of failure until I understand the tried not to is failure
I write and I sing of these days that I saw and am seeing
My pen is ever with me until I am done with this life
Know this life doesn’t have nice moments for you, like me
Just sitting all night and write of the lyrics that doesn’t have some power and this goes in to other poems
It’s not important to know that these days are going to be hard
In this time the bad moments are more than the good moments
The people are changing day by day
They are returning badness for goodness
It’s not important that I am getting like a smoke over the sky
If I walk in the street all the night
If all of my words are bitter
You know!? Because my heart drowned in to the sorrows sea.