Eulogy to the five Kurdish prisoners executed in Tehran

Der irakisch-kurdische Dichter Sherko Bekas hat dieses Gedicht für die fünf hingerichteten Kurden im Iran verfasst.

Es endet so:

The Republic of Islamic Execution

What is left there you haven’t sent on the gallows, not executed,

From the dreams to poetry

And from poetry to Woman and from Woman to bread

And

from water to flower and to spring

The Republic of Islamic Execution

However,

what it was never and never able to behead is

the future and freedom