Better to Struggle than to be a Puppet
We are not here to live as shadows.
We are not born to be reduced to a number in a hospital file,
or a cog in a system that steals our hours and calls it work.
Recognition is not given — it is fought for.
Even if it takes a lifetime, even if it costs everything,
to stand and say: I am here, I am Kurdish, I am free
is worth more than silence in chains.
Better the hardship of resistance
than the comfort of obedience.
Better a lifetime of struggle
than one day as a puppet.