September 11

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.

 

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