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I Rise

Tell my enemies, that I feel no fear. Tell them I was forged in oppression, watered in tears. Molded by the bullets, that embraced my peers. Tell them, my heart is of steel. Tell them I am Kurdish. Tell them, so they hear.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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