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“Şurşivanê Kurdanim.”
“A revolutionary of Kurds.”
“Bê kes u bê xudanim.”
“I have no relative and I’m alone.”
“Ketîme dest neyara.”
“I fell into the enemy’s hands.”
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Bu Mehanadê gerîam.
I searched for Mahabad.
Wek dara tuyê werîam, 30
I fell down like the mulberry tree,
Darek didest biçwîka.
A stick in children’s hands.
Pê dikirin yarîa bîka.
They were playing doll games with it.
Min gutê, Ev çi darî?”
I asked it, “What a stick are you?”
“Wek rebena livî warî”
“Like a poor stick in this place”
“Li kulana di xişandin,“ 35
“Has been slipped in the streets,”
“Ji nîvê ra şikandin.
“Has been broken from the half.
Gutî, “Ez dar ala bum.”
It said, “I was a flag stick.”
“Nav beyna çwar çira bum.”
“I was amid the square (in Mahabad).”
“Swînd u qesa merdabum.”
“I was the promises and words of man.”