YEZEDI
Winter on Mount Sinjar in 2014,
By the Christian calendar.
That year lasted forever:
Such a long, long time,
Our mouths expelled a hidden heat
The soul of the Ezedi.
Never before has the sun
Filled us so full of tears
Though we have been persecuted
Since the killing-wind of Islam arrived
These particular torturers arrived in the night
Stole our daughters, killed our sons
The Salafists were here having fun.
Now we sing for all the dead
For all those whom we loved and lost
At such a heart-wrenching cost.
Why DO the wicked prosper?
Why is all we build reduced to rubble
On the Nineveh plain?
Nothing can, ever-ever, be the same again.
John Marks
Fri 2nd Nov 2018 23:22
Thank you very sincerely Keith. The 'West' holds a heavy responsibility for colluding with the Turks (under the guise of NATO) and letting Daesh slaughter and enslave the Yezedi. Unsurprising, given the Turks' history of genocide against Christians (1915-22) and the ethnic cleansing of Constantinople.