An Election Statement

An Election Statement

The war criminal Bashar Assad of Syria Announced he is rerunning for presidency

The tyrant stood and told the people

I will leave you when you see the sun rising from the west

And if you reelect me or you do not

I'm staying, so don't be worried

My dad exchanged the Golan (Heights) with the presidency

A long time before many of you were even born

And I am the guaranty to Israel's security and safety

If you haven't believed that yet, then do!

My regime is a western necessity, so if you try to remove it;

Then the west will be the one who will burn your country

And you are nobody but our slaves

Only by death can the slaves be freed

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The people stood and told the tyrant and his assistants

You will leave as the other tyrants before you did

When the revolution breaks down, there is no return

It won't do you any good if you bray or crow

And it doesn't matter any more; the country has been burned already

All that matters now is to see your gallows installed

For half a century, we have been suffering from your crimes

While you were slaughtering our sons and robbing our country

But the time for you to pay back is here

So we can see death licking your sons

And about your supporters from East and West

The people never forget who unleashed the dogs on them

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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 May 2, 2014, Houston, Texas

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