Our Hotels are our Trenches
An Anthem by Tarif Youssef Agha
Our Hotels are our Trenches,
Decorated with our Guns
That is where our bedrooms are,
Guarded by our arms
From there, we defend our families,
From there, our flags will rise again
In there, our Dignity glorifies,
In there, Freedom is ours
Conferences don’t concern us,
As our country is the one on fire
Speeches don’t save us,
As our dictator will be removed by our canons
Most of the world is hypocritical to us,
Most of the world is against us
But, we are carrying on with our Revolution,
Victory, no doubt, is ours
We sailed, and nothing will stop our Journey,
Nothing will stop our Quest for Freedom and Dignity
Life will come back to our streets,
And the flowers will come back to fill our gardens
Syria will return prettier than before,
And its dear people will reunite again
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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 December 11, 2015, Houston, Texas
A Syrian Revolution slogan ‘Our Hotels are our Trenches, decorated with our Guns’, inspired me to write this anthem.
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