A Girl Is My Homeland Today Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

A girl is my homeland today

Poem: Sherko Bekas
Translated from Kurdish: Freeyad Ibrahim

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These fake leaders have taught us nothing but lies
Good morning
My name is Wall
Located along a public street
I am as long as boredom is
and
as high as wrath
The slogans all are hung over me
The posters all are affixed to me
Out one hundred slogans there is not a single one
which makes me happy
It was just yesterday,
from top to toe,
they stuck slogans unto me.
When I read them,
shame disgraced me
How could it be
That I'd be a wall of a homeland
detached,
To what such big lies
are attached

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Translation by:

FRYAD HUGO