Dedicated to all the mothers who raised revolutionary sons and daughters across the world:

Revolutionary Mothers of Kurdistan:

Never forget,

you are the children

of revolutionary mothers

who carried their insurgencies

ceaselessly on their shoulders,

long before they carried you

in the gentle warmth

of their wombs.

She did not forge you

out of the infernos of her oppression,

out of the summit of her endless

unbroken winter of pain,

she did not forge her back out of iron,

bending the unbendable, that they shattered

into a thousand pieces

of her ceaselessly silenced screams.

She did not survive the camps,

statelessness,

swallow the oceans of being a refugee

so that you can sit and wallow

in your hapless, silenced history

like a comforting winter cloak

shrouded in apathy. Carry her rebellious revolutionary love

tenderly in your arms,

birth another revolution,

even if it takes another thousand generations of revolutionary mothers

and their rebellious offsprings. But never forget, You are the children

Of revolutionary mothers. -“Revolutionary Mothers of Kurdistan”, Dr. Hawzhin Azeez, 28.07.18