For You Poem by Majid Gaggi

For you
For you baghdeda(*)
All the heart burned
And all the souls demolished
The Spirit stolen from every flesh
(Priest Anees Hannah) (**)
Yes Moralist Father Anees
For baghdeda, and for its:
Destroyed and burned churches, houses
All the hearts of her children,
And her beloved fan burned
After they saw what happened to baghdeda
And all peace-loving hearts broke
By the hands of denier neighbors
Of Arab Muslim villages
Who became Isis, and its Supporters?
The ideas in the minds had got lost and separated
It is certified by the horror of the catastrophe and calamity
And the fingers of hands-bearing take into pencil
No longer strong enough to write any character
The eyes and the vision of seeing deviated
Is fact or it is a dream what they are seeing
Every beautiful thing is destroyed
Sorry father, Excuse me to say
Souls of baghdeda's sons, lovers are not destroyed
Because they are sons of light, life, peace and love
The seed of faith in their hearts that were planted
Remain as God will for ever
Moves from generations to another no matter how long
Grandparents who tired and laid the foundations, and built Baghdeda and its icon,
The greatest Immaculate Church (***)
Their succeeded sons with their live souls,
Which was not stolen and broken?
They will rebuilt every nook and cranny of its
To keep the eye of syriacs source of missions
Today, tomorrow, and for ever
As it was in the past time
(*) Baghdeda: a Christian city near Mosul it was taken over by Isis in 2014, Looted and stolen at the time by the Isis and its collaborators from the people of the Arab Muslim villages adjacent to Baghdeda and when liberated by the hands of Iraqi forces recently, it was destroyed and burned all its buildings, churches and homes.
(**) priest (Dominican monk) one of more than hundred priests from baghdeda.
(***) one of the largest churches in the middle east, it was built by the people of baghdeda in the midst of the last century.
Majid Gaggi