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Migrant Tales Literary: Kun Taliban tuli

Posted on July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 by Migrant Tales

Arshiya Nasser*

Se oli iltapäivä ja taivas oli pilvessä. Isäni oli tullut aikaisin kotiin. Kaikki kaupungissa olivat
järkyttyneitä ja surullisia. Ihmiset halusivat lähteä pois kaupungista mahdollisimman nopeasti, koska he uskoivat, että hallitus kaatuisi pian. Talibanit olivat jo lähellä Kabulia ja etenivät kohti pääkaupunkia. Siksi isäni oli tullut aikaisin kotiin, jotta voisi pitää huolta perheestään. Hän kuunteli radiota, josta tuli uutisia.

”Talebanit ovat vallanneet Kabulin läheisiä alueita. BBC\:n mukaan Afganistanin hallituksen joukot ja
Taliban käyvät parhaillaan taistelua. Talibanin taistelijat etenevät kohti Kabulia.”
Isäni kääntyi äitini puoleen ja sanoi: “Vie lapset varastoon ja pysykää siellä. Minä menen hakemaan Maryamin. Kadut eivät ole enää
turvallisia, ja tilanne kaupungissa on kuin sota. Älä avaa ovea kenellekään.”
Maryam oli isosiskoni. Hän oli 15-vuotias ja oli mennyt ompelukouluun. Isä oli huolissaan hänestä.
Isäni lähti kiireesti ulos, ja minä, pikkusiskoni ja äitini menimme varastoon.
Varastomme oli pieni huone kahden muun huoneen välissä. Sitä ympäröivät paksut seinät. Se oli kuin
suojahuone – turvallinen ja vahva. Siellä oli vanhoja tavaroita ja paljon muistoja.
Äitini istui hiljaa tuolille pienen ikkunan viereen, otti esiin kirjan “Pikku prinssi” ja alkoi lukea sitä
meille ääneen.
Aina kun tällaisia hätätilanteita tuli, äitimme yritti rauhoittaa ja viihdyttää meitä lapsia. Hän kertoi meille
satuja, jotta emme ymmärtäisi, mitä ulkona, aikuisten maailmassa, oli meneillään. Joskus hän luki
kirjoista, joskus lauloi meille, ja toisinaan kertoi onnellisia muistoja menneisyydestä.

Tällä kertaa hän myös kertoi elämästään – siitä, miten hän tapasi isämme ja miten he menivät naimisiin.
Äiti halusi pitää meidät yhdessä ja suojassa. Hän ei halunnut, että ymmärtäisimme, mitä ulkona ja
kaupungin ympärillä tapahtui.
Sinä iltana äiti luki meille kohdan kirjasta:
Siskoni nojasi päätään äidin syliin ja minä tuijotin äidin huulia, kun hän luki.
“Aikuiset rakastavat numeroita. Kun kerrot heille uudesta ystävästäsi, he eivät koskaan kysy: ‘Millainen
hänen äänensä on? Mitä leikkejä hän rakastaa? Kerääkö hän perhosia?’

Ei, he kysyvät: ‘Kuinka vanha hän on? Kuinka monta sisarusta hänellä on? Paljonko hän painaa? Kuinka
rikas hänen isänsä on?’ Ja vasta näiden jälkeen he kuvittelevat tuntevansa hänet.
Mutta lapset ymmärtävät sydämellään. Heille riittää laatikko, jossa on nukkuva lammas tai tähti, jota voi
öisin katsella ja uneksia.
Minäkin katson öisin tähtiä. Koska yksi niistä on kotini. Ja jos sinusta tulee ystäväni, silloin sinäkin katsot
tähtiä ja näet ne hymyilevinä – koska minä hymyilen yhdellä niistä.”
Samassa kuulimme pihalta Maryamin ja isämme äänen, kun he palasivat kotiin.
Se yö oli pelottava. Kuulimme ohjusten ja taistelujen ääniä sekä läheltä että kaukaa. Me pysyimme koko
yön varastossa. Kun aamulla heräsimme, kaikki oli hiljaista. Emme tienneet, mitä kaupungissa oli yöllä
tapahtunut.
Isä meni ulos ja kuuli ihmisiltä, että hallituksen joukot olivat onnistuneet pysäyttämään Talibanin
etenemisen.
Kun isä palasi kotiin, hän sanoi:

“Ilmeisesti hallituksen sotilaat ovat saaneet Talibanin pysähtymään. Ehkä he vetäytyvät nyt. Ainakin
toistaiseksi on rauhallista.”
Samana päivänä Maryam meni ostoksille ja äiti oli keittiössä valmistamassa lounasta. Me lapset olimme
isän työhuoneessa. Muistan sen hetken, kun taistelut alkoivat taas ja kuulimme ohjusten ääniä läheltä ja
kaukaa. Se oli kuin uusi sota olisi alkanut.
Yhtäkkiä kuului valtava räjähdys. Koko paikka täyttyi savusta ja pölystä. Me lapset ja isä heittäydyimme
lattialle. Kaikki ikkunat särkyivät ja lasinsirut lensivät ympäriinsä.
Isä juoksi heti huutaen keittiöön. Ohjus oli osunut meidän keittiöömme.
Savun ja pölyn keskellä ei nähnyt mitään. Hetken kuluttua naapurit tulivat apuun lapiot ja hakut
käsissään. He alkoivat raivata raunioita.
Värisevin käsin he vetivät äidin ruumiin esiin sortuneen katon alta.
Isä ei itkenyt. Hän vain istui maassa, katsoi vaimonsa elotonta kättä. Äidin kädessä oli vielä puoliksi
leikattu sipuli, jota hän oli juuri kuorimassa – hän oli tekemässä meille ruokaa…

*Ohjaaja, kirjoittaja ja runoilia Arshiya Nasser on kotoisin Afganistanista ja asuu tällä hetkellä Suomessa.

Migrant Tales Literary: Juan and the mysterious stone

Posted on November 4, 2023November 4, 2023 by Migrant Tales

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are oppressing and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Malcolm X

Juan is a seven-year-old boy who enjoys playing alone rather than with friends. He was known for his wild imagination. From a short distance he was playing in the sandbox with his toy cars he heard a faint voice asking for help. Going to the source of the voice he noticed a tiny stone.

“Oh thank you for taking that heavy stone off me,” the tiny stone said relieved. “Some naughty boys placed me under the larger stone.”

Surprised by what he was hearing, Juan picked up the tiny stone that would not stop thanking him.

“It’s hard being a tiny stone in a large city like Helsinki,” it continued. “It’s not like in the countryside where stones are left alone. In the city, it’s different. Not a day does y when you’re pushed around. Some can even throw you in the sea.”


Source: Open Source


The stone was so grateful to Juan that he granted him a wish.

“Do you mean that I can wish anything I want?”

Juan thought for a long silent pause and then said that all he’d want was to become white. He said that if his skin color changed from dark brown to white, his schoolmates would stop ridiculing him at school and want to play with him.

In an instant, Juan’s wish was granted His skin was now white, his eyes blue and his hair blonde.

Placing the mysterious stone in his pocket, Juan ran back home, where his parents were surprised to see him ethnically changed.

“My God, Juan!” the mother said. “What has happened to you?”

“I saved this tiny stone, and it granted me a wish. for my good deed I asked it to change the color of my skin to white.”

Juan’s father, who was from Colombia and had lived many yards in Finland, was first speechless and then totally confused by what had happened to his son.

“My friends won’t bully me anymore,” Juan continued. “Imagine, I am now the same color as them.”

Days went by and Juan’s initial happiness started to wean, even if some of his school friends were happy that he was white. But some were taken aback and seemed to like Juan more when he had dark skin.

The change in ethnicity ended up causing Juan a lot of unhappiness. By erasing his old self, Juan lost a part of himself. It was like getting used to using new clothes he wasn’t used to.

Juan ended up miserable. He pleaded with the stone to take him back to his old self. It wasn’t possible because he was granted only one wish by the magic stone.

A familiar voice was calling Juan to wake up for school. She noticed her son was in tears.

“What’s wrong, my love?”

“I don’t want to be white. I want to be my old self!”

To his surprise and relief, Juan noted that he had a nightmare.

The nightmare had taught him an important lesson: No matter what anyone thinks, your background is a sense of pride.

On telling his mother about the nightmare, Juan reasoned that changing your ethnicity would be a mistake.

“Let’s face it, elephants would be miserable if they changed into ants and ants would end up missing who they were if they changed into elephants.”

Not understanding the full meaning behind Juan’s words, his mother ordered him to rush out of bed and hurry to school.

Migrant Tales Literary: Fatima

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Migrant Tales

Leo Honka

Who is Fatima? Who is the person wishing us from the Joutseno immigration removal center a kind, “Good night. Loved ones.”

Fatima is only a name. It houses no human because it is only a name written on paper by a plane dropping bombs, a tank shelling civilians, and a woman hoping for better days.

Could it be Fatima who is wishing us good night as floodlights expose the state of siege?

Maybe, but it doesn’t matter.


Bombs drop from the sky…

…and from the ground.
Continue reading “Migrant Tales Literary: Fatima”

Migrant Tales Literary: Would you buy a used car from PS’ Timo Soini?

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Migrant Tales

Timo Soini is chairman of the nationalist populist Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party. After the most recent opinion polls showed that the political future of the PS is bleak to say the least, what will Soini do after his party returns to the minor political leagues? Will he start to sell used cars? 

Would he sell used Halla-ahos or, maybe, Immonens, Eerolas, Elos, Huhtasaaris and Slunga-Poutsalos at rock-bottom prices?

Would you buy such a used car from him and would you trust his promises?

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Why not buy an Immonen? The engineering is as simple as the foul and poisonous arguments it exhales from its behind. So simple, in fact, that the biggest threat to this car and its driver is adding a square root to its 1 + 1 = 2 anti-immigration arguments. Buy it to impress racist simpletons. Source: www.zwischengas.com/de/blog/2012

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Here’s a spanking-new Eerola! Impress your friends with this vehicle that comes with a year supply of barf bags. Is it a rocket or a car? Who knows? You’ll respond that even if you are a practical nurse that has worked 12 years at a refugee center you still consider yourself an authority on immigration (sic!). Look at the headlights and rocket “fascist-style Mussolini” look. It’s backlights are intended to be more subdued in order to neutralize the racist demeanor that flashes whenever you signal to switch lanes. Source: www.dominnie.blogspot.com  

Continue reading “Migrant Tales Literary: Would you buy a used car from PS’ Timo Soini?”

Migrant Tales Literary: Dos poemas de Roxana Crisólogo Correa

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Migrant Tales

Primer poema

Roxana Crisólogo Correa 

unnamed

&

Una luz moribunda

como la que acecha los parques en el centro de Helsinki

 

mi modernísimo teléfono

me recuerda con un vip

que es el momento de conectarme con el audio

de una voz tristísima

al otro lado del mundo

 

mi hermana

la voz

 

se apertrecha en otras voces cálidas

 

la voz

me aconseja

me recuerda

me imagina en un mundo

irreprochable

y blanco

 

me felicita

me reinterpreta en el hilo juguetón de las

malinterpretaciones telefónicas

 

me habla de la felicidad

A la voz

poco le importan

las palabras

que quedaron a medio decir

no le dicen nada las técnicas

para congelar

y descongelar alimentos

 

ni mis esfuerzos por conducirla

por un territorio

que en mi español de ciudad

no es ni irreprochable ni blanco

 

Observa

imagina mis uñas

han empezado a caerse por la falta de sol

le digo

pero es solo una voz

que rastrea lo que es bueno

que en el largo viaje del significado se transforma

 

en una voz cálida

 

La voz me ha sentido

blanca

lo reconoce

por momentos siente las curvas

que los cerros trazaron sobre nuestras pequeñas vidas

como profundas

/intransitables grietas.

 

 

Segundo poema

unnamed-2

&

Zonas

que llamaré bosques lluviosos

árboles que en invierno se encerrarán en sí mismos

el casero repetirá convencido

vista al Báltico

Estonia

si la nubosidad lo permite

los rompehielos apenas llegarán cuando el paisaje

se congele

mientras tanto un submarino militar aletea en su mundo

sin ventanas

 

sé que los de los otros balcones

los menos favorecidos

no llegarán ni a imaginarse el mar

para ellos está reservado este ruidoso ir y venir de autos

y el olor chamuscado del bosque que se taladra a sí mismo

 

Pretendemos la igualdad   dice el casero aunque la luz

discrimina

 

Me preocupa el tiempo

que pasaré tratando

de impresionar al dueño de este piso

hasta que decida alquilármelo

 

finjo que no me importa que la vieja mina de carbón

de enfrente

acabe con mis pulmones reconstruidos

con yerbas medicinales de la Amazonía

y un hilo de fe

tampoco debería ser un gran problema tener de vecinas

a dos locas

que beben hasta dejarse caer por las escaleras

 

aunque el casero insista que son solo sus palabras

las que ruedan

cada fin de semana

y yo debo fingir que nada ocurre

 

En este edificio vive gente honorable dice el casero

el que discrimina es el sol

 

El casero aconseja

perspectiva

visión de futuro

 

comprar

 

una vista al mar

y no ropa sucia que multiplique

hilos de soledad en el cielo

 

altos muros que tendrá que saltar mi hija

para ir al otro lado.

(Poemas inéditos de Rompehielos).

 

 

 

Dana: Am alone in a faraway land without my mom

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Dana

Yes, it’s a few days since I got my citizenship, and you cruel ones got together. You hated me and my mother too.  She is gone now.
Dana

_________

Am alone at home

Alone in Finland

I cannot cry

I am standing in front of you, my enemies, and telling that you are very cruel.

She was waiting for me for three years

And still my family case gathered dust in your offices?

Where? I don’t know.

Who was the judge and lawyer that made decision that I do not deserve
to see my mother …I don’t know

Does he or she know me?

Does he or she believe I am ugly and not human?

Who are you?

Why did you not accept me ever and did not accept my family?

Now I want my mother
She was my mother, can you understand me?

Now come and attack me and tell me to get out of Finland,

Now come and attack me with your ugly hearts,

Now come and show me you’re very happy,

yes I made you all very happy with this news, but GOD is not happy and
GOD was a witness between us,

he saw how you treated me, he saw all, I don’t want more.

It has no hurt for you, it’s my mother not yours,

you cannot feel anything for me,

but joy, because I am a woman who cannot stay in silence,

because I am a woman who does not belong to darkness

so what if you hate me and show it to me,

show it again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow …

Now tell me what’s your idea? Oh nothing.

Finland why so? Why could you not accept my mother?

Why could you never asked me for an interview, oh what can you know about me…

All those moments you put dust on my case, you put dust and sand
between me and my mother…

Now she is not here, she does not need to miss me, she does not need
to feel pain for Dana.

Danaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa you have no mother, that’s finished.

Tell me what’s the difference between me and you, tell me what’s the
difference between my mother and yours?

I could not see my mother again, now what does this citizenship mean to me?

I paid for you, I paid for my family, but instead you scammers scammed me.

Thanks, I have no more words, thanks to you.

Let me talk about her, not about you.

She is my beautiful mother, she is in me, she is alive for me , she is
free, she doesn’t need to come and see how you have broken me, she
doesn’t need to come here and see me with a broken heart.

She was just 63 and no-one will live forever. You will die too one
day, no-one knows which day…. so why did you try so hard to separate
me and my mom?

Scammers, tell me what you have done with my money?

Tell me how you talked about my case with each other?

Why do you hide. To who shall I say this? Where are you, cruel one?

Where are you my enemies, I was not your enemy, so how come you put
yourself against me, what had I done to you?

You do not know me at all.

You don’t care.

Now you’re on your trip, on your joy , or on your warm bed, or at work
and proud of yours, or maybe you hug your wife or husband but I could
not taste my mother again…

Now tell me about my imagination and poems…

This is fact

I lost my mother… tonight

And so go and make a party for yours

I know you are very happy now….

But you are yet fearful hunters

Why do you hide yourself from me

If you are right and there is nothing to hide why has it been three years?

I am very kind with your mothers and fathers but what about you?

You don’t know about pain.

How can I live without my mother… oh so far far far… I could not
touch her again.

I even cannot believe it,

hey hunters I was speaking with my mother’s body, just hour ago, it
was fresh… my brother helped me, I told to my mom that I want 1000
and more stories, I will come .

Now no/one can understanding me , not even myself.

I cannot  help me now… because I cannot  hug me

I cannot  help me now…. because I cannot  get me

I can help me now…, because there is no me

I cannot  help me… because I lost me

I cannot  help me now….. me also needs me

But I cannot  help me now….. I wish I could touch her body but I
cannot. Why can’t I?

I see foreigners, with family here and there, and just suffering.

I don’t know why my destiny has become so hard and painful.

Whatever I am doing and trying I get nothing in result.

I am a ghost in Finland.

No-one can see me here

I am a picture in Finland, no-one can hear me here

I am  a poet, a writer in a nightmare… I just write write write and
think think think

I cannot  stop my mind

I cannot  stop trying …always have hope… my mother was in my wishes,

Without a wish there is no hope, for a tree is not a tree without a root.

This is a trip for all of us… but we were waiting a long time to meet

If my mother was here or close to me now I could sleep close to her
body until morning,

I’m not afraid of the dead so am not afraid of my mother either.

I could hug her until morning, oh would be very good… I love it.

But now I cannot even hug me

I never knew a hug is so important, oh never knew

Do you know about hugs?

Now I need one.. but am alone…there is no-one to hug me

So I won’t cry, I won’t let you see my tears.

I cannot  believe it, even if I wouldn’t deserve a hug.

I need my brother, he needs me… but we cannot hug each other

Now I wish to have her dress… I want to wear it and make it free with
my hair on it…

Then she will stay in me in my heart…”it fits you, you like
it…okay, take it!”

Skype was not working for two months in Iran..so I could not see her
for two months

Foreigners who have their family right here with them are the luckiest
in this world …

But I am waiting fondly for my mother’s dress now, and it would make
me so happy even if I start this happiness with tears.

Am sleeping

My mother will call me soon

and I will open my eyes in front of the sweetest face in the world, of
my mother.

Migrant Tales Literary: If you are a Finn

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Mark

 

If you are a Finn, what is a Fonn?

Was your flag blue and white, or was it lilac and yellow?

Sorry, what was that again? Sano säki mua suks?

Or was it san snää mnuu snuuks?

So who hates who in this mnuu snuu, I wonder?

 

So, I am the maahanmuuttaja.

There is only one of us, after all.  — Ha, you wish!

I am a mover of countries, apparently!

I see that my country certainly moved with me!

Was I a ulkomaalainen! Or was I a tulokaslaji?

 

A Finn…

sweats to get clean

swims in ice to get warm

drinks vodka to get thirsty

stays silent to communicate

 

Still, it’s not all contradictions.

Finns sleep. Finns clean their teeth. Finns talk (yes they do!).

Finns laugh. Finns smile. Finns walk (oh, and Finns pooh!).

 

Finns.

You know, people from Finland (or was that Funland?).

Finns.

You know, where the cocks crow a bit funny, like “cock-a-coockle-coo”

Finns.

You know, not Swedes. Oh, but wait, some of them speak Swedish, too!

Finns.

Tree lovers. True lovers. Nature lovers. Lake lovers. Because love is quite unique to Finland, don’t you know!

Finns.

Because F comes before G, and I comes after H, and N comes after M and oh, that, once again, and then S comes before T. And then, finally, we’re done.

Finns.

Because there is something extra special about Suomi.

Sacred, even!

 

So if you are a Finn. What am I, then? What am I to you?

Someone else, not a Finn, not so lucky, perhaps?

Not kin, to a Finn. But born into a dustbin. Just, someone “…from somewhere else!”

 

Do the birds in Finland know that they are Finnish?

That they are special?

Why not? – someone should tell them. Hey, suomalainen lintu – kuuntele!

Sä oot erityinen!

Every one of you! And the worms you eat, too.

All special. Loveable. Valuable.

Cos your Finnish.

 

I’m not a Finn.

I guess that means I’m finished.

…

..

.

Migrant Tales Literary: Boycott ?????

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Dana

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Land of walls: Finland       Finland or prejudice

Prejudice, maybe banter             Banter, wow, a hunter

A hunter of humanity             Humanity screams out in this land

Land of doubts, a sick land of doubts           Thoughts that doubt, a land of colossal hurt

Land of hurt or Finland           Finland, yes, a land of sin

Land of sin or ding dong land          Ding dong land or land of hate

Land of hate or land of fakes           Land of fakes and land that shakes

Scam scam scammers          I give you fair waning: scam is a shark

Walls oh walls look at those walls          Here, there  and everywhere

They play games behind the walls               Behind the walls that are inhabited by the darkness.

 

 

Migrant Tales Literary: V-Day – one billion rising!

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Mark

Today marks V-Day, one billion rising, referring to the number of women on the planet who have either been raped or beaten during their lives.

Eve Ensler, of The Vagina Monologues fame, has penned a passionate piece calling for women to rise up in protest and men to support them on Valentines Day 2013, in support of the these one billion women.

I bring this to Migrant Tales today also as a response to those men on the Far Right in Finland who attempt to hijack rape as an issue to further their own agenda of hate against immigrants – shame on you! Rape is not an issue to do with immigrants – it is an issue that all men must take responsibility for! If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!

 

OVER IT

By Eve Ensler

I am over rape.

I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on Facebook.

I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages with their
real names without shame.

I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and calling it
freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.

I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am
over being told I don’t have a sense of humor, and women don’t have a
sense of humor, when most women I know (and I know a lot) are really
fucking funny. We just don’t think that uninvited penises up our anus,
or our vagina is a laugh riot.

I am over how long it seems to take anyone to ever respond to rape.

I am over Facebook taking weeks to take down rape pages.

I am over the hundreds of thousands of women in Congo still waiting
for the rapes to end and the rapists to be held accountable.

I am over the thousands of women in Bosnia, Burma, Pakistan, South
Africa, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Afghanistan, Libya, you name a
place, still waiting for justice.

I am over rape happening in broad daylight.

I am over the 207 clinics in Ecuador supported by the government that
are capturing, raping, and torturing lesbians to make them straight.

I am over one in three women in the U.S military (Happy Veterans Day!)
getting raped by their so-called “comrades.”

I am over the forces that deny women who have been raped the right to
have an abortion.

I am over the fact that after four women came forward with allegations
that Herman Cain groped them and grabbed them and humiliated them, he
is still running for the President of the United States.

And I’m over CNBC debate host Maria Bartiromo getting booed when she
asked him about it. She was booed, not Herman Cain.

Which reminds me, I am so over the students at Penn State who
protested the justice system instead of the rapist pedophile of at
least 8 boys, or his boss Joe Paterno, who did nothing to protect
those children after knowing what was happening to them.

I am over rape victims becoming re-raped when they go public.

I am over starving Somali women being raped at the Dadaab in Kenya,
and I am over women getting raped at Occupy Wall Street and being
quiet about it because they were protecting a movement which is
fighting to end the pillaging and raping of the economy and the earth,
as if the rape of their bodies was something separate.

I am over women still being silent about rape, because they are made
to believe it’s their fault or they did something to make it happen.

I am over violence against women not being a #1 international priority
when one out of three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime –
the destruction and muting and undermining of women is the destruction
of life itself.

No women, no future, duh.

I am over this rape culture where the privileged with political and
physical and economic might, take what and who they want, when they
want it, as much as they want, any time they want it.

I am over the endless resurrection of the careers of rapists and
sexual exploiters – film directors, world leaders, corporate
executives, movie stars, athletes – while the lives of the women they
violated are permanently destroyed, often forcing them to live in
social and emotional exile.

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you?

You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother
us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why
aren’t you standing with us? Why aren’t you driven to the point of
madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?

I am over years and years of being over rape.

And thinking about rape every day of my life since I was 5 years old.

And getting sick from rape, and depressed from rape, and enraged by rape.

And reading my insanely crowded inbox of rape horror stories every
hour of every single day.

I am over being polite about rape. It’s been too long now, we have
been too understanding.

We need to OCCUPYRAPE in every school, park, radio, TV station,
household, office, factory, refugee camp, military base, back room,
night club, alleyway, courtroom, UN office. We need people to truly
try and imagine – once and for all – what it feels like to have your
body invaded, your mind splintered, your soul shattered. We need you
to let our rage and our compassion connect us together so we can
change the paradigm of global rape.

There are approximately one billion women on the planet who have been
violated.

ONE BILLION WOMEN.

The time is now. Prepare for the escalation.

Today it begins, moving toward 14 February 2013, when one billion
women will rise to end rape.

Because we are over it.

Migrant Tales Literary: Elixir – ?????

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Dana

Elixir – ?????

By Dana

?? ??? ????? ?? ?? ??? ????                    ??????? ???? ???? ? ????

In this unlimited evil and cruel world

Oh GOD  u r the right one and sage

?? ?????? ?? ? ??? ?? ????                  ???? ?? ?? ? ?? ???? ????

In your doorway night and day oh GOD

I whimper all minutes and moments , oh spirit

?? ?? ???? ????? ???????                      ??? ?? ???? ??? ?? ?????

That u, sacrosanct lover, my guide

 U r my root spirit, my moon face.

?? ????? ???? ? ???? ?????                         ??????? ?????? ???????

Fill me with spirit: lily, nightingale and song

U can turn me into a rosary, living and immortal

? ????? ? ??? ???? ??? ???                  ????? ?? ????? ?????? ???

Keeping me a safe distance from deception and duplicity

Visit my existence , banquet and GOD

????? ?? ???? ??? ?? ???                     ??? ?? ??? ????? ?? ?? ? ???

Turn me me into an aromatic light flower

Heal my life from bad and evil

??????? ??????? ?? ????                     ??? ???? ?? ?? ?? ??? ? ????

Oh GOD apparel me with ur spirit

Dress me always with ur colors and visage

???? ????? ????? ???????                            ???????? ???? ? ???? ????

Father, my pleasant Baba, my elixir

My portion, shelter and staddle

??? ?? ??? ?? ?? ???????                         ?????? ???? ?? ?? ?????

Oh GOD u r an unlimitted treasure of jubilatation

A bright  beautiful star and explicit

??? ???? ??? ??????? ? ??                     ??????? ?????? ???? ? ???

 Granting me patience, focus  and path

Showering  me with health, wisdom and happiness.

 

 

 

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