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