Let's get real

I'm riddled with nightmares of losing you. I am seized with fear in the wake knowing that I could actually lose you to a bomb. My heart lives in one of the most unstable cities in the world. He hates his life there. Everything about it disgusts him: the political turmoil, the governments inability to implement any positive change, absolutely inadequate health care standards, the disposition of the population, the irony that the country can gather in masses for Islaamic holidays yet has the inability to join together whether it be for revolution or at least community, the fact that he only receives power for 7 hours a day, the shitty transit situations that include massive traffic jams, sub par standards and resources for education, high unemployment rates- even for people who have masters degrees or higher, absurdly under qualified government officials running the country, and the list goes on.

I'm overwhelmed and I don't even live there.

Something needs to change. The people need to stand up and say to their government 'enough is enough'. They need to gather in numbers like they do to travel to Karbala, and demand adequacy from their government. These people do not deserve such tyranny.


Please, Iraq, please...