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We Sumerians in Mesopotamia

Our time in Erbil was short

We heard that in Mosul

The fascist’s love of power

Was enforced by knife and fist and gun.

Our time in Nineveh had begun,

Long, long beneath the sun.

With Dwekh Nawsha

It was a time for self-sacrifice

A time to break the deadly silence of terror

And now, again,  church bells ring in Nineveh

WE have changed fate.

We the ancient Assyrian people of Upper Mesopotamia.

Ours is a struggle in dust and blood, with poor intelligence

And worse food.

We saw Christian villagers helped by the secular fighters of the YPG,

And their DShK heavy machine guns,

We stood sentinel in the dark and in the sun.

These fighters are women, our sisters

Sisters of the Yezedis stolen on Sinjar., in august 2014

Now they come to send these Salfist rapists-murderers

Child killers

Off to meet their God.  Soon.  Insha'Allah. It will be done.

WE are the Kurds: Christian, Muslim, Yezedi we have fought for freedom

For thousands of years

Against the Ērānshahr, against the Ottomans, against the French, the British.

The Turks now try to kill us, the Americans desert us, the British have run away.

And now, alone, we move against these Salafist Daesh barbarians, come to perform their abominations.

Our love of life is stronger than their love of death

We have lived here since Nineveh was the largest city in the world

Before Christ (alayhi al-salām) and before Muhammed (sallā llāhu ʿalay-hi wa-sallam)

We lived here in Babylon with Zarathustra, with Gilgamesh, with  ki and with with an

 

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 27th Jul 2019 16:58

'Civilization' often boggles the mind. A forceful work.

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