Obama Stood up patting at his chest

Obama Stood up patting at his chest

By Tarif Youssef-Agha

Obama stood up patting at his chest

And said that he will grill Basahr (Assad)

He sat, he stood, he yelled, he threatened, but

When he was done, we knew he was talking about popcorn (Boushar in Arabic)

We thought that he is Antar (famous hero), to find him Musayluma (famous liar)

We thought that he is Aba Zaid (famous hero), only to find him just a braggart

The sword we thought of steel, we found it of wood

And the man we thought was a swordsman, we found him a carpenter

No wonder, a musical instrument with a hole in it is useless

And the bad stove only produces soot

We don’t hear words from frogs, only croaking

And from a fortune teller, only meaningless generalities

The one who reduced our tragedy to chemical weapons only

Must have a brain that is reduced to a vegetable bin

And let me correct some common mistakes

Repeated by ignorant people days and nights

We DO NOT have a Civil War, but a Revolution

Shame on every one who doesn’t call it so

And those who are fighting the (Assad) regime are not Opposition Fighters

We call them Revolution Fighters

Handing over the chemical weapons should not spare

Those who sent our children to the graves

The people of Syria will punish its butcher by its hand

They don’t need fleets and huge armies

We will keep going after that gang, no matter how long it takes

Whoever burned the country should face our flame

We said thousands of times “We will never forgive”

We will oppress those who oppressed us

Oh Obama, take your fleets if you want

As our people are counting on the undefeatable (God)

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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 September 13, 2014, Houston, Texas

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