Reaffirming My Faith Poem by zainab godhrawala

LAUGHING AWAY AT YOUR IGNORANCE,
AS I SIT HERE REAFFIRMING MY FAITH,
I WILL NOT BE BOUND,
IN YOUR OPINIONS,
I WILL SIT HERE AND JUSTIFY
TO MYSELF, HOWEVER,
ABOUT MY BELIEF IN SOMETHING STRONGER...

LOVING, KIND, AND MERCIFUL,
THESE WORDS JUST COME TO MIND,
I WONT BE TAKEN IN BY YOUR CLAIMS
OR DOUBT WHEN YOUR LIPS CURL IN DISGUST,
YOU MOUTH YOUR DISBELIEF,
AS I SIT HERE REAFFIRMING MY FAITH,
LAUGHING AWAY AT YOUR IGNORANCE.

YOU MIGHT CALL ME A FANATIC,
AND MIGHT QUESTION MY MOTIVES,
YOU DO MOCK MY ORTHODOX NOTIONS,
BUT YOU NEVER NEVER UNDERSTAND,
WHY I LIFT MY EYES UP AT THE END,
OF A TIRED DAY, JOINING WITHERED HANDS IN PRAYER.
TOUCH MY FOREHEAD TO THE COLD FLOOR,
YOU LAUGH AT MY INCOHERENT MUTTERINGS,
BUT THERE ARE BIGGER THINGS AT WORK HERE.

YOU SCREAM AND YELL,
AND I REGISTER BITTER HATRED,
I CLOSE MY EYES,
THERE, IS AN ALLEGIANCE,
I WONT BREAK,
I TURN AWAY FROM YOUR PESSIMISTIC RHETORIC,
LAUGHING AWAY AT YOUR IGNORANCE,
AS I SIT HERE REAFFIRMING MY FAITH.