Lamenting Fatima Al-Meghlaj

On Sunday September 16, 2012, the Syrian regime air force fighters shelled the village of Kafr-Oaid in Idleb province, North West Syria, killing a lot of civilians. Among the martyrs was the 4 year old Fatima Al-Meghlaj who was found headless.

Lamenting Fatima Al-Meghlaj

The world has no more heads

By Tarif Youssef Agha

Fatima sacrificed her head

So Syrians can raise theirs

And they can exit decades of darkness

In which they drank cups of humiliation

Decades in which dogs behaved as if they were lions

And rulers were worshiped as if they were gods

Decades in which all the deeds were against all the laws

And were against what Mohammad, Jesus and Moses said

Syria today is teaching a lesson to others

A lesson to who can understand

‘When a dictator rises, the country should be alarmed’

‘When minority rules, the people will end under the feet’

Fatima passed away by the hand of a savage regime

A regime which doesn’t know how to use anything but axes

She passed away and left behind her

People who are paying their souls for freedom

Oh Fatima, do not be sad, as your killer is not Syrian

He rather looks like the ancient Iranians

And the powers of evil are united behind him

The evil nowadays looks like Persians and Russians

Oh Fatima, you became a bride while you were just a child

You will be received in heaven as a bride

Your head will be a moon that will light up our path

Your memory will be guarded in our heart

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Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Houston, Texas

Friday September 21^st. 2012

Five days after killing the child Fatima Al-Meghlaj

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