Thursday, March 18, 2010

"In memory of 16 March 1988 attack on Halabja": Poem


"In memory of 16 March 1988 attack on Halabja": Poem
By Steve Tataii
"In memory of 16 March 1988 attack on Halabja"
16، 1988
by: Steve Tataii

16 March, 2010
We, them, all things, and beings will never forget

It will remain as an engraved black day in human history for ever

Its memory will always be in the depth of the brains of

every Arab

every merchant of death selling the chemical ingredients

every Monstrous warmonger politician that

their conscience vain has been surgically

removed from their scummy self that

was

will be or

will not be as who they are

will be or will not be and

in the minds of all future generations that

will read or

will not read history

but it will be remembered

from her own remembrance "living"

in the atmosphere of all of planet earth and

even the stars and

the sun

in their unseen molecule amasses

like the never scattering clouds

like the blue sky above

like appearing and disappearing moon

like the wind with a loud screaming sound in the middle

of no where

like a baby's cry that never stops

like ten thousand mothers crying out

"ax rola gyan

wey rola gyan

bo chi roishty

bo chi nagari bo malo

ax rola gyan

bawanem

ax rola gyan"

filling our ears for ever

we shall remember

for we shall always die a little when we remember

that giant black day engraved in history and

in all minds for ever.

Poems By Steve Tataii
for March 16 1988 Halabja memory

Steve Tataii is a Kurdish scholar, former US Senator Candidate, the author of 3 recent books on Iraq War related to Kurds, and Kurdistan. He may be reached at: tataii2003congress@msn.com