Dear Embryo...(3azeezi al janeen)

Dear embryo…I am sure you feel safe
Knowing you have nine months of this
Total bliss
I am here to tell you of what you might be
When you are finally born…your destiny
Your creator has already decided you see
But this is just a brief of the possibility
Here is a word you will hear constantly
That will categorize you in definitely
Regardless of what you feel emotionally
And the word here is your nationality...


If you are born belonging to a Gulf Council Country
Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, UAE or Saudi
You may consider yourself blessed or lucky
Due to the black gold that brings in the money
Different nationalities will live in your community
Having left their homes on the hopes to make money
Some will be doctors or maids or engineers possibly
Trying to make a better living for their family
While you meet all these people as you grow old
Remember this advice that you were once told
Simply because you just happen to hold
A passport belonging to the owners of black gold


Will not give you the right to treat with unfairness
Being in their shoes is a thought that is not pointless
As an embryo you must always remember this
After all you could end up being something else
For example you may ultimately turn out to be
An educated Arab with a different nationality
And even if you happen to be a scientist with a Ph.D.
You'll always be second best if you lived in the GCC
Your country may in fact actually hold
One of the great Seven Wonders of the World
But sadly your history rich with culture and old
Will not save you the agony of being treated cold


Worse still, you may be an Arab but actually stateless
Graduated from Stanford or Harvard it would be regardless
You will probably have an IQ that is the highest of intelligence
But since you are stateless means nobody cares less
On the other hand you may end up being from an Arab state
But due to politics you will somehow be forced to hibernate
You will turn to foreign countries that call themselves great
As you struggle to belong to a completely different fate
If you end up being born to the western world
These struggles that I have mentioned may never be known
You will live your day to day life with the worry
Of trying to make as much as you can of money


You may decide to actually live in a GCC country
And as a western expatriate you will paid double your salary
Your qualifications may not necessarily be
Any better than the average person from GCC
However due to your western nationality
This will give you a much better opportunity
You may wonder then what is my nationality
I must tell you that I feel I belong to only me
For within those that I have mentioned you see
I am connected to them all universally
Oh dear is that a miscarriage I see
Wait! Please don't misunderstand me
I may have been talking sarcastically
For life can also be lived beautifully
With or without the burden of nationality!