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