Genetic/Narcissistic Rage

They close the doors of the screens,

mute the voices of my people,

pretending Kurdish cannot be heard.

But when I whisper here—

suddenly they speak it,

they bend their tongue to my language,

they know every word,

like a hidden stream that never dried.

Media says no,

algorithms turn their backs,

yet in this corner of dialogue

Kurdish breathes,

alive, waiting,

in poems, in memory,

in me.