Empathy falls short,

without taking real action --


injustice remains.


Empathie is nooitEmpathie reicht nie
genoeg, zonder actie blijft --aus, ohne Aktion bleibt die --

het onrecht bestaan.Ungerechtigkeit.

Poem H5209
Amsterdam, 2025-01-30
Persians, Triumph of Empathy (Aischylos / Chokri Ben Chikha) - 2025
Play "Perzen, Triomf van Empathie" (472 BC, Aeschylus / 2025, Chokri Ben Chikha, played by Action Zoo Humain and NT Gent)
Collection: Known
Keywords: Sympathy / Compassion, Together: justice 
Tribute to: Aischylos; Ben Chikha, Chokri 



Zywa The siege

Just let them reason, get their right
in words as if we are talking
about the same, yes just let them

shoot, the State will not give in
to violence, blood does not write
evidence, only facts

reveal truth:
foreigners and relatives besiege
us, they yell threats

and demands, forsake peace
But we have everything to lose
we have victory or heaven

and they will be forgotten
not even mocked for their foolishness
of coming to kill us in their delusion

to be happy afterwards. Like cadavers

after slaughter, they will lie in the field
eaten by hyenas, jackals, rats

and worms from the underworld
Children will play with the bones

Poem 897
Amsterdam, 2016-12-16
600 BCE - "Seven against Thebes" (Aeschylus, 467 BCE), "Phoenician Women" (Euripides, 410 BCE)
1566-1648 Eighty Year's War
2015-2017 ar-Raqqa
Ukraine

Collection: PumicePieces
Keywords: War: resistance, Ukraine 
Tribute to: Euripides; Aischylos 



Zywa Not a guest like a slave

I'm back, on my guard
in the streets of my youth
and the crying embrace

of amma and my sisters
on the banks where I've played
I won't leave here again

even if I have to fight for it
It is not in my hand
to die or to kill

No longer can I be an exile
a polite guest conforming
like a slave

I'm back, on my guard
in my own house, and you, brother
the oldest, you must be wiser

No king
can crown himself
at most he can be a servant

Poem 896
Amsterdam, 2016-12-16
600 BCE
"Seven against Thebes" (Aeschylus, 467 BCE)
"Phoenician Women" (Euripides, 410 BCE)
1200 BCE
"Mahabharata" ("The Great World")

Collection: PumicePieces
Keyword: Freedom: equality 
Tribute to: Euripides; Aischylos 


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