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