Oh you, who are Fighting Terrorism

Oh you, who are Fighting Terrorism

By Tarif Youssef Agha

Oh you, who are fighting terrorism, you left me wondering

How come you leave the snake’s head and attack the tail?

The head of Terrorism is shielding himself in Al-Muahjereen Palace (Assad’s palace)

He is the one who invited all the butchers

He made Syria a club for the criminals

He imported to it all the thugs, foreigners and Arabs

His ally in Tehran is the one who protects and supports him

Who helps him with canes every time he is about to fall

In the other hand, the one you are shelling in Al-Rakka (ISIS capital in northern Syria) is just the bus-boy

The bus-boy goes when his master goes

You are shelling those who are still amateurs in crime

But leaving the professional who relates to the devil

No doubt ISIS is, as Assad, criminal, but

Assad is the one who gave ISIS its strength

Don’t you really understand what is going on?

Or is there a reason behind what you are doing?

He (Assad) also killed journalists, and on the top of that

He killed and displaced millions and caused a calamity to the Homeland

If your campaign ends with him remaining in his palace

Then he will dance at the tunes of the threats you made to him

The one who comes to Syria not to fight the regime first

Will be failing the exam of freedom

If there is any gang that needs to be removed

Then the gang of the (Assad) regime is the one, before any other

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A Poem translation

(Can be shared without permission)

By Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday September 26, 2014, Houston, Texas

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