Hopama

Hopama     Poem by Kurdish poet Kamal Mirawdeli To President-elect Obama with hope Yes: "There is nothing false about hope" We will hope against hope But hope we will never drop Maybe it is just an illusion But we share it with exhilaration And soon we know, what we have become A new nation Let us be fully awake and dream Let us be bright and beam All things cannot be what they seem But we dream And toll the death knell of yesterday´s nightmares And defeat our ´finite despair´ with our ´infinite hope´. Our ´No way´ with "Yes, we can´´ Yes we can: you and me Coming all the way up from the deep dark recesses of history Like a bursting summer stream The black Solomon has come through the jungle safe and sound Tamed the lions, tigers, wolves, snakes, and the white eagle, Speaking a universal language understood by the dead and the living, By humans and animals and birds and flowers and green grass and streams and rivers and oceans and skies Language so universally shared is heard by God too Nay, we will never give up this diction, this conviction again Hope breeds hope The white eagle takes the message of the black King To the sun What a small globe! What a sweet hope! Who fails to feel the dawn´s dew? Change we can: I and you.    By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli   A.Y.H