"seasame sesame/sin sin" by Habibo

seasame seasame

how I like to be the same

the same as thee

the same as me

the same as you

the same as we

"I wrote about my spelling mistakes and longing for normality.

I tend to spell words incorrectly,  looking at the word, I know it’s spelled wrong. I spend quite a long time trying to figure out the misspelled word, the letter that’s missing, and if the first letter is correct.

The hesho I’ve felt at my grown age being unable to spell, although English is my first language.

It just so happened I was trying to spell out sesame and sounded it out as sea-same. So I kept the name as sea-same as a double meaning Somali’s roots in the sea (fishermen), sesame being widely used in Somali cuisine such as sinsin, anjero, ambulo.

What gives me comfort is something my father told me (while I was learning to write Somali), Somalis write how they think there’s no incorrect spelling (it’s an oral language)."