Don't blame Bachar!
Don’t blame Bachar!
A Poem translation
Don’t blame Bachar
He only did what he learned to do
“Oh my son, all problems can be solved by killing”
That was what his father taught him
“Oh my friend, do whatever you want”
That was how the whole world used to deal with him
The world turned a blind eye on his father’s massacres
And promised him Syria for his family for ever
“A rose in the desert” the world said about his wife
“The president of the youth” it said about him
The world made him ‘the legend of the forbidding’
It crowned him with the crown of the ‘resistance’
And after all the horrifying deeds he committed
The world is still sending him envoys to talk to him
Don’t blame Bachar as he learned
That Israel will never turn him down
And that if Israel is in his side
No one, from the East or from the West, can touch him
Two regimes based on racism and oppression
Each one of them guaranteed to protect and support the other
But, the time to pay the bill has arrived
He and his supporters will pay the price of the committed crimes
We should also blame ourselves, because our patience with him
Caused all the mess we have now
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A Poem translation
Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Friday April 12, 2013
Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry