Oh Syria, why are the Arabs weeping?
By Tarif Youssef Agha
Oh Syria, why are the Arabs weeping?
The wondering will be gone as soon as the reason is known
The enemies have separated our Arab Nation into regions and countries,
Put wedges among them and caused catastrophe to their people
The enemies assigned butchers and called them governors to rule us
Butchers who devastated their people and robbed them
The enemies planted Israel in our heart as a dagger
Then invited thugs into it from allover the world
Oh Syria, they also planted a ghoulish regime in you
A regime that invited into you all kinds of creepy people
So you became, as Palestine, a land of catastrophe
And your people are treated, like its people, as if they don’t exist
Some of them were thrown away all over the world
The rest were housed in tents in the deserts
The nightmare of our people was prolonged
The brutality of their disaster made them tired
Oh Syria, I have a big blame against you
But as you know, blame comes from love
When are you going to burn those who burned us, who burned you?
When will we see these monsters gone?
The monsters who demolished (the city of) Hama in the past
And donated the (Syrian) Golan Heights to Israel
Wipe them out and don’t be fooled by their Arabic names
As they, Oh Syria, do not have Arab hearts to pump their blood
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A Poem translation
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Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Friday April 4, 2014, Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry