Author's Note
I wrote the poems in Love & Memory during the 1980s. I was living in the United States where I felt isolated, homesick, and disturbed by constant reports of brutality by the military regime in Somalia. I was at a low point. You could say I was going through an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional crisis.

During this period I was also preoccupied with the question of my own identity. I was born in one place, raised in another, and now found myself living in the big U. S. of A. In other words, I was trying to reconcile my Somaliness with my other identities and with my American experience.

It was a most difficult task, full of failure and disappointment. I was torn by contradictory thoughts and feelings. I came dangerously close to the edge. But somehow I went on. A sad story, but I am still here, and one good thing came of it: these poems.

 

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