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Poem by Freyad Ibrahim:
Break, break, break
It is daybreak.
Kurdistan awake
It’s a new day.
It’s a new way.
Shake, shake, shake
the terrors crown.
Rend , rip, rive
the idols’ gown.
Beat, beat, beat
Crash them hard
Under your feet.
The gloomy clouds
Are drifting away
A new sun shines,
shifts your night
into a daybreak.
Rain, rain, rain
Heavens hail,
Winds do wail,
Masses, a hurricane ,
never want wane
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It’s a new day,
It is new era.
The dauntless young,
fair- and- square,
armed with knowledge ,
found their way,
With care,
Are aware:
Technology will prevail
The old-fashioned rulers
Will never avail.
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Oh! My people,
Your drained colour,
So long pallor,
has turned brown.
Every gash in your body
is a crown,
is a mouth crying:
Down, down.
Every scar
On your backs
every slash
On your breasts,
On your wrists,
Is a shooting star.
That is why
They Soar ,
and flash
in the sky,
and fly
so high!
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Youth of Fatherland,
turn
and terrify
Your attackers.
Are they humans?
Or barbarians ?
Or beasts
Or hyenas
Or wolves?
brokers,
Or slaves?
servants,
Or clowns,
Or jokers?
Beware:
Your wounds are tongues
That testify
Of today’s disaster
And register
In the history :
They’d pave the way,
and justify
your fair affair
Until Doomsday
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My cherished people of my Kurdistan:
Rage
No more sobs
No more sighs
rush,
wage,
Don’t hush,
Smash
your fears,
Change
dash.
And take
The chance
It’s Daybreak.
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Break ,
the bars of your jail
don’t wail,
don’t wait,
Shatter your cage,
Yelp,
Yet a victor’s yelp
It’s a Daybreak
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Dear children of my Kurdistan:
Go and Gaggle,
Gaily,
Like the flying blue- birds,
Giggle!
Soar,
Search,
high sky
and roar,
linger
as a butterfly,
Over
The wild flowers,
then
Wake, shake, and break
It is Daybreak
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Freyad Ibrahim was born in Soran, near Erbil. He was forced to flee Iraq in 1997 and now lives with his family in the Netherlands. He writes and translates in Kurdish, Arabic, English, Dutch and Farsi.
