Russia, the main supporter of the Syrian Dictator, invited all the parties to meet in Moscow to have a new round of negotiation, with pre-accepting that Assad could stay in power for a transitional period of time. Some of the opposition parties accepted to go.
A Revolution the entire World is Fighting
By Tarif Youssef-Agha
Oh (Syrian) Revolution, the entire world is fighting you, All; big and little
Planting mines in your way, day and night
The entire world is working to bury you
Some are doing it secretly, others are doing it openly
Oh Syrian Revolution, don’t surrender, don’t give up
Don’t stop now after the blood poured like rivers
The defeated only gains pity
Only the triumphant gains respect
Half-Revolutions are always lost in the darkness of memory
Only those which complete the job draw the destiny
Don’t trust a regime which every one knows by now
Every one knows it is a back-stabber
Always a lion on us, but just an ostrich in wars
It never fought a war without running away from the battle field
If we accuse it of being low, we wouldn’t be unfair
And if we call it a traitor, we wouldn’t reveal a secret
Everyone who thinks this regime will leave through negotiation is ‘imagining’
Anyone who goes to negotiate with it needs a saw (to cut it and trash it)
And pulling it from its roots has no alternative
Such regimes don’t leave except by force
They don’t leave their palaces except to their graves
And doing that needs brave and free people
If the oppressors are serpents, then the revolutions are volcanoes
Only when the volcanoes erupt, do the serpents run away
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A Poem translation
(Can be shared without permission)
By Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Friday January 16, 2015, Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry