Oh Smaha, let me tell you!

Everyone knows that the former Lebanese minister and representative Michael Smaha is one of the political trumpets of the Syrian regime and one of those who helps marketing that regime locally and internationally. But no one expected him to sink to the level of an ‘informant’ for the Syrian intelligence service, a ‘stevedore’ for its explosive merchandise and a ‘postman’ for it in his homeland Lebanon.

Oh Smaha, let me tell you!

A poem in official-slang Arabic language

By Tarif Youssef Agha

Oh Smaha, let me tell you

What the ‘Heck’ were you cooking?

Does anyone cook with a gang

Which is drinking from your country’s blood and yours?

You brought shame to yourself

And to your sons, father and grand father

You once were a minister and representative

And you always brag in a suit and neck tie

You are no different from Hassoon (Syria minister of religion) but for the turban

You both need garbage bags to cover your disgrace

You should respect the gray hair left on your head

What did you save, to forgive you in the Day of Judgment?

Honestly, how would those dollars help you then?

Don’t you see that, pardon me, you are at the edge of your grave

***

Okay Smaha, how about you start from the beginning, but honestly?

How many explosions have your signature on them?

What do you know about May, Samir and Gebran? (Lebanese explosion victims)

And about a lot more of your fellow citizens

What is the story of “Bashar wants so”?

Don’t you have phosphor in your brain?

Don’t you know that allying with his regime will stain you?

And making it the enemy will skin you

And if you stay neutral, your conscious will torture you

That is if you still have one

Oh Smaha, I don’t know what to tell you

But I can say that you dug your grave by your own hand

If you take a life sentence, no one will be sad

And if you take a death sentence, no one will miss you

***

Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers’ Assembly’

Houston, Texas

Wednesday August 15th. 2012

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