Five Years

Five Years

The Fifth Memorial of the Syrian Revolution for Freedom and Dignity

By Tarif Youssef Agha, March 15, 2016

Five years have passed since the massacres against the Syrians have started,

The whole world united to ruin our Homeland

Five years of us facing the hypocrisy of the world,

Facing lies, injustice, displacement and crimes

Five years like no other people witnessed,

Those who didn’t end in graves, ended in tents

Those who didn’t end at the bottom of the sea,

Made it to the land to become homeless

Others pretended to be giants and came to bully us,

Even we know they have always been dwarfs

They started competing, who could hurt us the most,

And they were proud of it

Some of them came to protect the oppressor,

Some others blamed us for starting the freedom revolution

No one dared to help us,

Even those who thought they were our brothers

And those who used to lecture in freedom and dignity,

Denied us both; they thought we didn’t deserve to have any

When you leave a nation to be mauled by hyenas,

Then don’t blame it if it fights back

No, we will not accept the removal of the regime head only,

After we remove the butcher, we will remove the regime

After we defeated the garbage-bags look alike mullahs (of Iran),

Here are the Russians also taking a hike

After five years, we the Syrian people, are renewing our pledge,

Freedom was and still is our demand and passion

Our revolution will become the greatest in history,

All freedom lovers will learn from it,

But none of the pens will be great enough to document it

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A Poem translation

(Can be shared without permission)

By Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday March 15, 2016, Houston, Texas

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