Syria will deliver freedom

Syria will deliver freedom

By Tarif Youssef Agha

After the oppressor was told “Syria will deliver freedom”

He trembled and ordered all the new born babies to be killed

And ordered the heads to be cut, the tummies to be opened,

And those who don’t worship him to be burned

His army started storming all the cities

His soldiers started knocking on all the doors

He used every thug, hater and butcher

And also every one who was known to be a traitor

The whole country sunk in sadness and fear

And the knife became the only witness and the only witnessed

The population was divided between those who became graveyard residents,

Escapees and border crossers

Between those who were arrested and exposed to torture

And those who were swallowed by prisons and put in chains

The heart of Syria shock over her new born baby

Because death was using the people around as a fuel

But God whispered to Syria not to be sad

And said “We will save your new born baby”, God always fulfills

Freedom always surprises the oppressor when he doesn’t expect it

Every oppressor is promised to be fallen one day

Syria who has suffered from injustice for decades

Will soon deliver her baby-freedom while the whole world is witnessing

The rebuilding then will restart, as usual, from the ruins

And from the abyss, as usual, the climbing will start to the top

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A Poem translation

Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday May 17, 2013

Eight days after the gangs of The Assad Regime blew up the Bridge

Houston, Texas

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