Take your Idole and leave us alone

Take your Idol and Leave Us Alone

By Tarif Youssef Agha

Oh you, who worship Assad, take your idol and leave us alone

As our people has suffered unto death from your crimes

And you, the people of Iran, come back to your senses

As your ‘Jurist Guardian’ has no doubt lost his mind

And you, followers of POG (the Lebanese Shia militia Party of God), have you forgotten who

Opened their houses for you when our and your enemy waged war against you?

And you, followers of ISIS (Al-Qaida faction in Syria and Iraq) we are not from you, you are not from us

Do you really think that slaughtering people will lead you to heaven?

All of you are criminals, with no exception

You exceeded all humans and all genies in your criminal acts

You spread the killing all over the Homeland

You developed science from the killing, and also made art from it

You who slaughtered, bombarded and burned

The rope of the gallows is impatient to meet your necks

Crime has no religion, color or homeland

A criminal is every one who intends to kill

The religions are tired of every killer who claims he is killing for God

And ‘The House of the Prophet’ (Mohammad) doesn’t recognize butchers

Only when all the criminals are washed from the Homeland

Only then we see peace and security in the Homeland

But there is no treason greater than demolishing a whole country

And there is no killer worse than that who exterminates his people

No one does that but the one who doesn’t have honor

Only the one who is even lower than low

If I assume that you are dirtier than pigs,

Then it won’t be fair for the pigs, but fair for you

We will make the day in which you leave a feast to celebrate

We will hand out suits and our women will wear henna (Middle Eastern hair and skin dye that used mostly in celebrations)

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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 19, 2014, Houston, Texas

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