Poem: I Worship My Lord

The Islamic Poetry blog posts a wonderful poem by Na’ima B Robert about compulsion in religion - or rather, the lack of it:

I wake before dawn.
No muadhin calls me,
No footsteps stir me,
Instead society spurns me,
Labels me and burns me.
But everyday,
I wake before dawn.

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