By Freeyad Ibrahim:
2001
The collapse of the twin towers
was the collapse of America’s pride
The whole world was sad
America cried
1980 – 1988
America but never cried
For the victims who died
By the mass destructive weapons
Reagan and Thatcher had supplied
the most terrible terrorist with
Saddam
whom they themselves have created,
Then denied
September 11 , 2013
America is still sad
For me it tastes no longer bad
For America has avenged
itself twice as raged
with the aid of big Powers,
It has destroyed two lands
instead of two towers.
Like the Arabs in Jahilliyya, Ignorance Era
They couldn’t catch the murderer
Instead they murdered
the two innocent brothers
of the murderer
Freeyad Ibrahim was born in Soran, near Erbil. He was forced to flee Iraq in 1997 and now lives with his family in the Netherlands. While still in the homeland, he worked as a journalist, translator and essay, article and short story writer. He graduated from the Bagdad University English department in 1981 and a decade later got a masters degree in Arabic language and eastern literature. Today he writes and translates in Kurdish, Arabic, English, Dutch and Farsi. He has written two novels, in Arabic and in Dutch, and is completing two more, in English and Arabic.