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