In Damning Bashar Al-Jaffary

In Damning Bashar Al-Jaffary

The Syrian regime ambassador to the UN and the head of it’s negotiating team in Geneva 3

By Tarif Youssef Agha

I was asked “do you know any one who embodies dishonor?”

I said “Al-Jaffary, who also embodies illiteracy”

They asked “Why him but no one else?”

I said “because he represents a regime that employs no one but thugs”

A regime that has a long history of shedding its people’s blood,

A regime that does not fight any one but its own people

Since its darkness settled over Syria,

Syria harvested nothing but catastrophes

It kept asking for the help from the enemies,

It looks like it is committed to turn the Homeland into ruins

Some men, you wish to cover with roses,

But this Al-Jaffary, you wish to cover him with shoes

They sent him to Geneva as the head of their negotiating team,

Because they couldn’t find any man more degraded than him

He is a liar by profession, rude and hypocrite by nature,

He is venomous and more dangerous than snakes

I will not be surprised if this man has a tail,

As such people, no doubt, relate to mules

Or may relate to pigs which don’t leave a filth,

But only to move to another filth

Every time I see him or hear him, I feel like I want to throw up,

He and the garbage are alike; they are both impossible to live with

Such people shame humanity,

Such people live as a burden on others

Allow me to tell you, oh Jaffary, that you and your regime,

Without the protection of Israel, would be history by now

But also allow me to tell you, oh Jaffary, that the Syrian people will

Avenge you and your regime, no matter how long it takes

The Syrian people will kick you out of the blessed land of Syria,

And they will make sure you will not come back again

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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 February 5, 2016, Houston, Texas

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