Tariq Jahan lost his son, Haroon, in a hit and run incident during the riots in Winson Green, Birmingham on Wednesday
After the evening prayers at the mosque,
came the looters in masks,
and you three stood,
beloved in your neighbourhood,
brave, bright, brothers,
to be who you were –
a hafiz is one who has memorised
the entire Koran;
a devout man –
then the man in the speeding car
who purposefully mounted the kerb …
I think we all should kneel
on that English street,
where he widowed your pregnant wife, Shazad,
tossed your soul to the air, Abdul,
and brought your father, Haroon, to his knees,
his face masked in only your blood
on the rolling news
where nobody's children riot and burn.
CAROL ANN DUFFY
guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 August 2011 23.28 BST
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If I was your girl friend
Would you remember
To tell me all the things you forgot when I was your man?
Hey, when I was your man
If I was your best friend
Would you let me
Take care of you?
Do all the things that only a best friend can
Only best friends can
If I was your girl friend
If I was your girl friend
If I was your girl friend
Would you let me dress you?
Let me help pick out your clothes
Before we go out?
Not that you’re helpless
But sometime, sometime those are the things that being in love’s about
If I was your one and only friend
Would you run to me, if somebody hurt you?
Even if that somebody was me?
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
Please
If I was your girl friend
If I was your girl friend
Would you let me wash your hair?
Could I make you breakfast sometime?
Oh, can we just hang out?
I mean, could we go to a movie….
Could we, together?
Coz to me baby
That would be so fine
If I was your girl friend
Baby can I dress you
I mean help you pick out your clothes
Before we go out (if I was your girl friend)
Listen girl, I ain’t saying you’re helpless
But sometime, sometime those are the things that being in love’s about
Listen girl,
Sugar you know what I’m saying to you this evening
Maybe you think I’m being a little sexy tonight
I say I wanna be
All of the things, you are to me
Surely, surely you can see
Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room just because you want to undress?
We don’t have to make children to make love?
You know, we don’t have to make love to have an orgasm…
PRINCE
If I Was Your Girlfriend Video
