Kadhem Khanjar

We are young killers

We sleep on the dirt

And we eat with our hands

And we cover our children when we sleep

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We are young killers

So boring crimes these days

Where there are no medals and no cameras

We are young as they say about us

Because we do not end it with a snare

We can not connect the explosive belt to the mobile phone

Our arms are not long enough to be slurred on the neck

Also, we do not put the dead in the cages, nor do we raise the fire in them.

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We are young killers

Smaller than a drop of blood

We kill for stories and stories

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We are young killers

We are young in every stab

Kadhem Khanjar