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