It’s all these bloomin’ gorei!
The Yankees and the Brits
They colonised the Muslim world
And made us look like twits!
They used us for their World Wars
They stripped our lands of riches
They left us fighting like hyenas
Then watched us fight, in stitches
But they did give us their passports
And let us emigrate
We settled in their towns and vales
And we made it rich and great
But ‘O! these bloomin’ gorei
The Yankees and the Brits
They still seek to divide us all
Like we’re complete nitwits
It’s all these bloomin’ Gorei
The English and Americans
They fought their war on terror
Leaving us like a bunch of lemons
Although we have still lived here
And no-one’s thrown us out
We still build our schools and mosques
Which UKIP hate no doubt
But O! These bloomin gorei
You can’t really trust them
On your face it’s human rights
But behind your back- they’re hell!
It’s all these wretched Gorei
The Yankee and Brits
And you can add the Aussies
And the Kiwis and the Yids
They treat us like we’re vermin
They ridicule our faith
They don’t respect our culture
And they think we’re an inferior race
But they do lap up our curry
They savour our kebabs
We got rich driving them in cabs
They think our food is fab
We have made hundreds of mosques
Some from pubs and churches
We got madrasahs and our sheikhs
Which please our Islamic urges
Thousands of us treat their ills
As doctors in the NHS
We’re teachers in their secondary schools
We don’t just clean their mess
But ‘O! these bloomin’ gorei
The Yankees and the Brits
One day they’ll throw us out for good
One day they’ll throw a fit
And when we’re back in Pakistan
Back in the Muslim world
Perhaps the Gorei will miss us all
Perhaps they’ll have a ball
Perhaps there’s some who’ll miss us
Perhaps it’s our attitude
Perhaps we let the minority’s hate
Misrepresent the multitude
Perhaps we just need to appreciate
Our comrades in humanity
Perhaps all our resentment
Is just plain old insanity
Perhaps the gorei after all
Are really just like us
Perhaps we’ve let smatterings of hate
Cause in us such fuss
Perhaps we all need to chill it out
And make peace our insistence
The gorei like our curry and rice
And we like they’re queuing system
Poet’s Notes:
Gorei- Urdu word for English, Americans, Europeans
This poem is the counterpoint to the poem: The Foreigners Are Coming