Homs was surrendered

Homs was surrendered

By Tarif Yoyssef Agha

Homs was surrendered and everyone continues to bark

The whole world sided against us with its dogs and puppies

The Iranians and Russians came with an old hatred

And the West came lying and betraying

The one who stabs you in the back is a thousand time

Worse than the one who tells you openly that he is your enemy

Much worse than those who kill you by weapons are those who

See you dying but keep medical care away from you

Oh Homs, all the cowards are celebrating now

No one is left for you but God

All heard you but closed their ears

They tore the homeland and left us crying at its parts

All the red lines they set for the butcher were

In deed green lines to him and his allies

Invitation for them to continue the massacre

To overcome the people who rose up for his glory

Oh Homs, Yabrood and Kussair, be patient

As we found the freedom, the light of the dawn will rise

The tribe of killers will not rule us after today

Neither will the mad man who burned the homeland with his sickness

Our land will not be stained with the hating Mullahs

Our people will fight them for the sake of existence

Our independence from the colonials has been incomplete

The departure of the butcher is the arrival of the independence

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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 16, 2014, Houston, Texas

The prolonged besieged city of Homs was handed last week to the Assad regime gangsters through a regional deal cut with the Free Syrian Army fighters, so the fighters could have safe exit from the city.

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