“From our thousand year old sleep,From our crippled history,
Comes a sun without ritual,
To the country that's dug in to our lives like the grave,
To the drugged and murdered country,
And kills the shaikh of the sand and locusts."
Adonis (Ali Ahmed Said)
“Victims of a Map”,
Saqi Books.
Locust swarms are the dread of hot countries, also of course, the Biblical curse. They devour all, destroying sustenance.
The locusts in uniform, who have destroyed Iraq, humanity, sustenance, its history, predating the time of Christ and the Prophet Mohammed, are never, it seems, satiated or satisfied. From the early defiling (ongoing) of Mosques, cemeteries (Muslim, Christian, Yazidi ...) even the sacred tributes to the memory of the martyrs are being destroyed and defiled.
The locusts in uniform, who have destroyed Iraq, humanity, sustenance, its history, predating the time of Christ and the Prophet Mohammed, are never, it seems, satiated or satisfied. From the early defiling (ongoing) of Mosques, cemeteries (Muslim, Christian, Yazidi ...) even the sacred tributes to the memory of the martyrs are being destroyed and defiled.
Please click the photo of the Shaheed Memorial for clarity and then continue ...