Dedicated to all the western volunteers who have fought and died with the Kurdish YPG to defend the Yezedis and to resist Daesh and their allies, the NATO-supported Islamist Turks. Including: Aidan James, 27, who is the second Briton to face terrorist charges after travelling to join the Syrian Kurdish YPG.

 

Allow all Yezedi refugees into the UK

The Ezedi: Assyrian, Zoroastrian,

Christian and Persian people

Survived 74 attempts at genocide

By their neighbours, the Sunni tribes

But they are still alive.

Smell the desert wind,

See these women, shyly beautiful, armed

YPG soldiers alive beneath the stars:

Desire does not evaporate in this Mesopotamian heat

Our eyes sparkle for all that we no longer have.

This makes us so-sad.

Not that I hope for anything from you, the west,

My sweet life, except more misery.

Compassion never left us

Just the hellish cruelties of the Caliphate intervened,

Weeping dies in this man's eyes

He must avoid the extravagances of love,

Burning sighs can swallow sadness,

The need to find the missing Yezedi girls predominates:

Those 'sex slaves' Daesh bought & sold in Mosul include his daughter FERAŞÎN.

I do not hope for miraculous interventions on the quantum scale to help the Yezedis

For I  know how truly selfish we are:

So undiscriminating

Hope must take a quantum leap into an imagined future

where we all take a shine for futurity.

Solving nothing at all

But fighting against the inhuman cruelty

That traps the Ezedi in this heartless present.