This is a poem about Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.
You’re so unremittingly nice.
As sweet as a clementine cod
Dispensing your baking advice
And loving Islam and your God.
You’re so unremittingly nice
You never get grumpy or crabby
Positivity shines from your eyes
You’re the BBC’s favourite hijabi.
But I wonder how much of it’s real:
If you’re doing this under advice
How much external pressure you feel
To be so unremittingly nice.
It’s not that your smile is a guise
That you’re sinister, evil or scary
Being so unremittingly nice
Just to charm Mel and Sue, Paul and Mary
It’s the toxic and poisonous lies
About Muslims that come from the press
Being so unremittingly nice
Ms Hussain, does it ever cause stress?
I just wish that sometimes you could take,
Though you’re clever, you’re kind and you’re wise,
A well deserved, bad tempered break
From being so unremittingly nice.
Tom Juniper Poetry 