A Spaceship Has Arrived Here

A Spaceship has arrived here

By Tarif Youssef-Agha

A Spaceship has arrived here from a different planet

Carrying on board, scientists came to study “Humanity”

As they heard a lot of stories and news about it

How rich it is in ideals and values

They hovered east and they hovered west

Until they landed in a country called Syria

They didn’t believe what they witnessed with their eyes

They even thought that they were imagining

They didn’t expect to see rivers of blood

Or mountains of human heads

Neither did they expect to see cities being set on fire with their population

Nor to see corpses carried away with steal rakes

They didn’t understand why the children are being slaughtered

And why the killing is being conducted according to the identification card

They were even more astonished when they knew that all the killing was

A punishment to a nation because it demanded freedom

They couldn’t comprehend how all this happened

On a planet whose inhabitants brag to be ideal

And that they have courts to pursue the war criminals

A council to keep the security and also national organizations

Those which defend human rights

And those which guarantee the freedom of faith

They were even more astonished to know that

All the world countries were partners in the crimes against Syrian’s citizens

Some of those countries participated in the massacres on the ground

Others were hypocrites, but still participated with the others

The spaceship commander ordered to leave Earth immediately

Before his crew get infected with the contagiousness of “Humanity”

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A Poem translation

(Can be shared without permission)

Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday June 20, 2014, Houston, Texas

http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry