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The papers are howling, the ban is swift approaching<br \/>\nTelegram calls tanker across ocean lines, live wires, crackling, sparking, call them all in,<br \/>\nGuess we bring the spark to Sparkbrook and Sparkhill, our community springs to life<br \/>\nFrom spice-filled suitcases, to the welcome hug years in the making.<\/p>\n<p>Now we can eat, and nothing has ever tasted as good as liver curry<br \/>\nOn a cold winter day. Now we can breathe, and so the songs from back home<br \/>\nFind us, fill our lungs, and our new homes grow full of the ones that make us whole \u2013<br \/>\nWe stitch the ties back tight, no more loose threads.<\/p>\n<p>With our song, we strengthen our voice, flex our vocal chords,<br \/>\nMaking ourselves heard beyond these four walls, we venture to the Bull Ring,<br \/>\nTurning up in our finest at the Rag Market and not afraid<br \/>\nTo call out, lungs inflated, \u2018Pound, a pound, a pound!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Another crackle, static, pixels and then \u2013 moving pictures!<br \/>\nThe birth of TV, wheel in our very own that same week.<br \/>\nBut then, we hear that guy Powell spouting rivers of blood, our blood runs still,<br \/>\n\u2018Stop this flow of coloured immigrants\u2019 he says, God forbid he ever see coloured TV.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t worry, <\/em>we say<em>, hang on a little longer, make their life that bit better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u06f7\u06f0<br \/>\nAnother decade stretches over the horizon, and we, against all odds,<br \/>\nAre coming up in this world \u2013 our name stares out, proudly painted<br \/>\nOn the corner shop, looking people in the eye and asking, \u2018do you see us now?\u2019<br \/>\nThis is our nai zindagi, naya jeevan. Is there ever a better excuse for some gulab jamun?<\/p>\n<p>What would you like, angel delight with a pack of cake rusks? We\u2019ve got it all.<\/p>\n<p>As trousers flare, and collars stretch to our shoulders, the shillings fade out<br \/>\nOur pounds roll in, soon we\u2019re rolling the streets of Birmingham in our yellow Allegro \u2013<br \/>\nWind in our hair, life shifting gears, unstoppable.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that the ole clang of machines would result in these bhangra beats?<br \/>\nAnd who needs sleep when we\u2019ve got Independence celebrations and Jubilee parades?<br \/>\nSinging \u2018we\u2019re here to stay\u2019, British and Asian, and we think we\u2019ll be okay.<br \/>\nAs the Spaghetti Junction adds new strands, we become more and more entwined with this land.<\/p>\n<p>Until we wake up to the words \u2018NF GO HOME\u2019 and life comes crashing down<br \/>\nFrom one spray can. Do they want us or not? We steady our shaking hands,<br \/>\nRepaint our dreams, defiant when sinking our roots deeper, pushing through<br \/>\nCracked pavements \u2013 our parents never raised us weak.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t worry, <\/em>we say<em>, hang on a little longer, make their life that bit better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u06f8\u06f0<br \/>\nRoars of the daytimer don\u2019t-tell-your-parents clubs, and echoes<br \/>\nOf protests that almost fractured us, but we held strong.<br \/>\nThis decade is loud and tie-dye bright.<\/p>\n<p>Watching our pirated copy of Sholay over a large fish and chips,<br \/>\nAnd swapping our saris for ripped jeans, we have become<br \/>\nThe both and neither, something new, our very own mix.<\/p>\n<p>The corner shop thrives, and the pockets of newfound freedoms taste sweet<br \/>\nAnd we are just about to put up our feet and watch the telly, when CRASH!<br \/>\nLife stops. A brick through the window snaps us out of the dream.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t worry, <\/em>we say<em>, hang on a little longer, make their life that bit better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u06f9\u06f0<br \/>\nMemories of those early days begin to grow hazy, as our heads fill to the brimful<br \/>\nWith Asha on the 45. Hello world, we say, as shaadi.com has us stepping up our game,<br \/>\nAnd Kabaddi calls, we stop to watch, and head to the Balti Triangle after the match.<\/p>\n<p>With a loud \u2018goodness gracious me!\u2019, we creep close to the turn of the century.<br \/>\nStaring out of the corner shop windows, the future looks bright \u2013<br \/>\nApplications are due soon, always hearing you better be a doctor, not some BA bewakoof.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t worry, <\/em>we say<em>, hang on a little longer, make their life that bit better.<\/em><br \/>\n\u06f0\u06f0<br \/>\nAll their hopes and prayers live on in us, those of our daadas, daadis, naanas, naanis.<br \/>\nThough some of us have lost our tongues, we look to them and know they hear us<br \/>\nWhen we say we\u2019re going to be ok, we ignore the wobble in our throat and continue,<br \/>\nOur future is bright and brown and that bit better \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 and we owe it all to you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem commissioned by DESIblitz written and performed by Zarah Alam is Inspired by the TV series \u2018Back in Time for Birmingham\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,39,119,36,120],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-birmingham","tag-british-asian","tag-desiblitz","tag-poem","tag-south-asian-heritage-month"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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