Thus we found ourselves mid-summer, preparing the Xagaa 2018 issue of Hargeisa Literary Magazine, and inundated with submissions touching upon this topic, including visual and poetic references to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and even suicide.
I will speak for the silent
For the quiet & meek
For lions without historians
When their time is most bleak
I will speak for the mothers
Whose children are deep
Six feet under earth
Their hearts aching in grief
My people say to leave what is on this side for the flood
And to leave what is on that side for the wind:
Waxaa iqa maqan,
acceptance.
That depression is not a myth,
A conspiracy of gaalo,
A break from tradition,
A rebellion against religion,
A coup,
“Diinkii Dhaanshey” (The Turtle Fetched a Pail of Water) is an idiom that hooyo always said to us when we were being lazy. It’s taken from this story about a tortoise.
“Hadallo ka soo baxaya af aan wali dilaacin, fikiro dhex mushaaxaya maskax aan wali amabaqaadin,…
دعني أعرفك عليها ؛ فأنا لدي تجربة ممتازة.
كانت لدي صديقة نسميها (الشبكة) ؛ لأن الشباب كانوا يصطادون الفتيايات بها ، هي التي عرفتني على المدعو بأبو القعاع محمد بن محمود الملقب بأسد اﻹسلام .
