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The happy Eid of Killing
By Tarif Youssef Agha
The home land is being destroyed every day, no stone is being left
No house, mosque or church is being left safe
Humans and animals are being hit by hatred
All creatures that walk or fly
But there is still someone who wants to say to us
‘We wish you goodness every year’
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How do you feel if everyone betrayed you?
And even you neighbor stabbed you in the back
No one left who did not lie to us
No one left who did not help killing us
But there is still someone who wants to say to us
‘You have a blessed Eid’
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The coffins became the clothes of Eid
And the butchers became the only visitors
The gatherings became those for mourning
And the talks are only about the mass murderers
But there is still someone who wants to say to us
‘Hope we see you blessed every year’
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No span of the homeland is safe anymore
The people became refugees
There is no family there
Without one of its members missing
But there is still someone who wants to say to us
‘We wish to see you safe every year’
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After we got used to watching
The slaughtered, the burned, the dismembered and the handicap
And listening to all the big and little fellows
Threatening us with all phrases of threat
But there is still someone who wants to say to us
‘Have a happy Eid’
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I say to those who are destroying the homeland
‘We are coming to you with iron and fire’
And I say to those who are supporting them
‘Wait for us, our dawn is not far away’
And I say to those who want to wish us good Eid
‘The Eid of Syria is the day we avenge the martyrs’
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Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Houston, Texas
Friday August 24th. 2012
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