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