The Homeland Has Been Lost
By Tarif Youssef-Agha
The Homeland has been lost
Amongst he who called himself Abu-Baker (The Sunni ISIS leader),
He who called himself Hassen (the Shiite Lebanese Party of God leader),
He who inherited the presidency (the Syrian dictator Assad)
The one who, as his father, was turned into an idol
And those who are fighting under their flags
With a leash in the neck of each one of them
Amongst a neighbor (Israel) which occupies our land and steals our water (The Golan)
Therefore, insists that the dictator (Assad) should stay in power at any price,
A Republic which calls itself Islamic (Iran)
Which waits for the Time-Imam to come back
But, meanwhile, doesn’t have any shame to
Occupy its neighbors, secretly and openly,
Amongst a war-criminal (Putin of Russia) who made himself a Tsar
While his heart and conscious are made of mold, and with his airplanes
The blood of our children keeps running like rivers
Our people will curse him more than they curse Satan,
And, finally, amongst those who call themselves our friends
While, every one of them is a hypocrite
Every one of them stabbed us in the back
And mixed the food they gave us with poison.
All those who control the destiny of the world are thugs
They made us hostages in their hands
Oh Homeland, be patient
We will save you from all that trash
We will rebuild you with Freedom and Dignity
Your best day will come tomorrow
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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 December 26, 2014, Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry