…and for the Kurdish people in Rojava, Occupied Kurdistan
.../for the Palestinian people in Occupied Palestine
and for those resisting,
under paramilitary siege, in the Occupied Cities of the U.S.
“Our choice is clear; victory or victory.”
YPJ Commander Raya Mihemed (Hasakah, Rojava):
1
Me? i’ve fought this radio to a homicidal truce
where it hides beneath its bunker of books,
the ones i’ve torn pages from,
instead of letting them argue their lies to
my illiterate children, down all these years
living as a slave.
i’ve fought the ghosts of enemies
i misunderstood in their sentry posts
on the walls of Immorality
and so they bombed my shelters,
slaughtered my dreams,
imprisoned every single one of my
demands in dungeons and despair
and all my wretched howling was
to no avail.
Now i am an old man in the midst
of endless war.
My stomach hurts,
my bones ache, my eyes
bleed daily
with the countless casualties
inflicted on us
for believing in a better world.
And still it rains here,
constantly.
2
All this water must soon
swiftly flee
to find its way from
the river to the sea
and bring with it both
the bodies of the dead,
slaughtered for spite and
the butchers’ greed
as well as these lies that tell me
“thank you for your attention”
…as if this will always be the way
things are…
Fuck all that.
3
i am, an old man with a grudge.
i am an old man with a grudge i
am proud of.
i’ve slept in doorways
cursing the rain.
i’ve bitten the hand that
refused to feed me.
By now, my enemies should
have all died before me
just so i could dance
on their graves,
this pathetic dance of the
drunkard i longed to be
and even failed, too frequently
at that task.
4
But now i look all around me
and all i see are these humanless humanoids,
these brainless brutes with their bankroll
as big as their toothless mouths
with their vicious brains and their fucking bombs
their militias, presidents, spies,
their assassins, warships, artillery and airbases
and always, always, their greedy twisted tongues
telling me to bow and scrape and serve
to this servile religion of slavery and servitude
and i know today for sure
what i was told as a child
Oh, let this “sleeping beast” sleep
“for if it wakes it will shake
the whole wide world”.
5
And so i surely know
this “sleeping beast”
must be the human heart,
this one right here being
torn in two
and no motherfucking shiteating
murdering fascist
in all the thieves’ dens
in all the bars and brothels of a world
already sold to these bankers
and billionaires
will
stop
it…
not all the “sick beings” in
their broken world
can stop our insurgent and
uprising war.
6
So, please, go search,
go out and search
for Her,
i tell you now
this heart,
this human heart,
insubordinate,
seditious,
subversive
insurrected!
[22 january – 27 january, 2026]
...while in the U.S
“I am following with anger and anxiety the military attacks on the
multi-ethnic and democratic self-administration of the Rojava
Revolution. Since 2012, the name Rojava has mobilized people in and
beyond the region, opening up new horizons for a revolutionary politics of liberation.
To stand up and defend Rojava is a duty for anybody committed to
freedom and equality. In an age of war and genocide, struggling for
Rojava means struggling for a different world, built upon the
ecological, feminist, and democratic principles that the Democratic
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has turned into a
lived reality over the last years. Biji Rojava…” [23, january, 2026]
The Attack on Rojava – is an Attack on Hope – ANF English (23 Jan 2026)
