An End – to – Empire

by séamas carraher, global rights | 2024-12-27 9:56 am

There is no end in sight to/ this endless night./ No end to the death of children./ They die singly and in multitudes/ in languages such as Arabic, Mayan, Malay, Irish, Tibetan, Palestinian,/ Kurdish…/ They die in poverty while the / powerful climb higher and higher/ on their mountains of greed / and garbage

1

 

The sirens of fire and fury

still wake my sleep each night.

 

The screams of dying children

walk legless and armless

through my desperate dreams.

 

i pace endless corridors

in search of peace

 

but still the empire grows, it

spreads like a greedy virus, it copulates,

conspires, plots and poisons,

it invades, “intervenes”, metastasizes

like a cancer,

it crosses borders and boundaries

and the blood-brain-barrier of predators

and fools

 

it marches to the mindless

laughter of drunkards and arms-dealers,

the polished scheming of corporations

and the lying promises of politicians.

 

2.

 

There is no end in sight to

this endless night.

 

No end to the death of children.

 

They die singly and in multitudes

in languages such as Arabic, Mayan, Malay, Irish, Tibetan, Palestinian,

Kurdish…

 

They die in poverty while the

powerful climb higher and higher

on their mountains of greed

and garbage.

 

Whole forests fall in front of their marching feet.

 

3.

 

These voices that haunt the dark

tell me there is no end.

 

But i believe in an end.

 

i believe in the end to Empire.

i believe in an end to the greedy rutting

of emperors and tyrants.

To dynasties and darkness.

i believe in the end of Führers and fanatics,

of ayatollahs, crown princes, kings and dictators.

 

i believe in an end to lies and liars

the propaganda of power and profit

i believe an end will come

i believe it all will be possible…

 

4.

 

So i see you there, nameless and stateless

without property or passport

way, way, so very far ahead,

when the evening is soft and warm

and the sun has settled nicely on its edge

and there is time for thought

and decency

 

and your people have found a map

hidden in this grim graveyard

where empires are buried deeper

than the darkness of their lies and propaganda

far far beyond the blood and brutality

of the ones it still feeds on

after a thousand years.

 

séamas carraher

5 – 23, december 2024

 

IMAGE

“Palestinian girl surviving an Israeli airstrike targeting her house in Gaza Strip wonders where her family are…” Times of Gaza, November 6, 2023 (screenshot-fair-use)

Video posted by – For a Culture of Liberation (November  2023)[1]

 

NOTES

An End (to Empire)?

Wikipedia / Democratic Confederalism[2]

Murray Bookchin Bibliography[3]

Abdullah Öcalan Books[4]

 

 “They die…

in languages…”

Muted-tongues-a-timeline-of-suppressed-languages[5]

 

Other Voices

“All the world are with us, not with you” – “Go From My Land”

Islam Channel – May 2021[6]

 

 “Who will protect the Land

if or dignity dies..?

…and will the silence of millions

help..”

 

Gaza girl recites poem

Dekodei – July 2024[7]

 

 “Poems become a voice…for those who can’t speak…”

Voices of Gaza: Palestinian child expresses struggles through poetry

TRT World – November 2024[8]

 

Dareen Tatour

Resist, My People, Resist Them

 

Resist, my people, resist them.

In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows

And carried the soul in my palm

For an Arab Palestine.

I will not succumb to the “peaceful solution,”

Never lower my flags

Until I evict them from my land.

I cast them aside for a coming time.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the settler’s robbery

And follow the caravan of martyrs.

Shred the disgraceful constitution

Which imposed degradation and humiliation

And deterred us from restoring justice.

They burned blameless children;

As for Hadil, they sniped her in public,

Killed her in broad daylight.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the colonialist’s onslaught.

Pay no mind to his agents among us

Who chain us with the peaceful illusion.

Do not fear doubtful tongues;

The truth in your heart is stronger,

As long as you resist in a land

That has lived through raids and victory.

So Ali called from his grave:

Resist, my rebellious people.

Write me as prose on the agarwood;

My remains have you as a response.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist, my people, resist them.

 

Dareen Tatour Reading – November 2015[9]

Arablit – the poem for which Dareen Tatour’s under house arrest[10]

Global Rights – Dareen Tatour Released[11]

 

 

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