The Christmas of Hillfaya

The Assad regime of Syria committed a massacre in the town of Hillfaya near Hama city Sunday December 23, 2012 when it shelled the bread factory with missiles from Meg-23 fighters, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.

The Christmas of Hillfaya

Two days before Christmas

By Tarif Youssef Agha

The Devil sent a present to the bread factory of Hillfaya

From the jets of death

He sent missiles that mixed the flour with innocent blood

Only in Syria, the bread is targeted

As in the past, Mary Magdalene was targeted

Neither Christmas is respected there

Nor the Honorable Birthday (of the prophet of Islam) or any other feast

The massacres there are the feasts of every day

Feasts where people are killed according to their identities

Feasts organized by a gang that swore to become the killer

And made the people to become the killed

The world keeps silent when a whole nation is being eliminated

But gets angry over the fate of a single minority

To the world, threatening a minority is an unforgivable crime

But cleansing the majority is a debatable matter

Oh Hillfaya, don’t be sad since Al-Hula, Daraya and Muaddamiya had what you had

Every one is ignoring Syria, so it might be forgotten

Oh Syria, don’t turn your other cheek to the executioners

You only use guns with such criminals

When a whole nation is crucified while the world is watching, then

We don’t want lectures about the world laws

We don’t want preaching about forgiveness and tolerance

Tolerance with mass killer is considered a crime by history

It is also considered as being coward

Being coward is not what brave Syria is known for

We say to Christ that we love him

But we will not forgive the scum of humanity

It is our obligation to avenge the blood of our martyrs

So their souls can rest and be satisfied

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A Poem translation

Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday December 28, 2012

Houston, Texas

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