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