Responding to Al-Akhdar

After the Syrian file was transferred from Kofi Annan to Al-Akhdar Al-Ibrahimi, we haven’t seen much of him on the ground. It looks like he was sent just to SHOW that the world is trying to help, but it also looks like his mission is giving Assad more time to kill. He came a few days ago with a plan that is a real “joke”, and this is the least that can be said about it. It suggests that Assad keeps his presidency till 2014, but can’t rerun again!

Responding to Al-Akhdar

By Tarif Youssef Agha

Oh Al-Akhdar, how come you kept silent for ever, but when you talked

You offered “Hell” or two more years with “Assad”

What is the difference between you and those who wrote on the walls

“Assad or we will burn the country”?

Don’t you know yet that “Hell” according to the Syrians is

Much better than “Heaven” with that “Kid”?

And if your plan needs something, it needs

Blue (eye) to protect it from envy

Are you really wise and experienced, as they say?

Or they have just sent you to avoid the blame?

You only appear when “Assad” is in bad shape

Or when he needs help from his friends

If he counts on the whole world for help

We count only on God

The solution (in Syria) will be neither Russian, nor Iranian

Their solution will end around their neck as a “rope of fire”

He* who is sending jet fighters to kill our children (*Russia)

Will, at the end, harvest what he planted

He* who wants to lecture in politics needs to know (*Russia foreign minister)

The first lesson is that no one should listen to the “Butcher”

The butcher of “Chechnya” is the last one who should talk

As the whole world is aware of his crimes there

Oh Al-Akhdar, you too can’t be blamed as you are the product of

Another regime which found solutions in its people’s blood

If you were in the Dair Balaba* during the massacre (*a recent massacre site)

Would you then suggest that the “Bad One” keeps his job?

But in case you didn’t hear it, the Free Syrian Army responded to you

No ‘talk’ with a regime which ran away from humanity

No ‘talk’ with those who burned, slaughtered and mutilated the bodies

I would like to say to whoever has such solutions and lectures for us

‘Your solutions and lectures are more useful in the restroom than anywhere else’

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A Poem translation

Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday January 4, 2013

Houston, Texas

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