The Pilgrimage, Syrian style
By Tarif Youssef Agha
The “Holy Kaaba” is located in Mecca (Arabia)
Millions of people travel to it every year for Pilgrimage
They circle the “Kaaba” and stone Satan
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Satan in Syria has an elegant palace
A *palace that is located in Al-Muhajereen quarter (*the presidential palace)
Are there any pilgrims who like to come over to stone him?
Syria found the path to its own pilgrimage
It learned how to stone its Satan with bullets and bombs
And swore that nothing would save him from it
The Satan of Syria sounds like a crow
His soldiers dance over the corpses and skulls (of their victims)
They do what monsters do
The Syrian pilgrimage therefore was started by deep-rooted people
They started it from Daraa (city) shouting ‘down with Assad’
Then they moved to the rest of the cities thundering ‘there is only one God’
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The Syrian pilgrimage has rules;
Load your gun and become a fighter
Circle all the cities
Don’t leave any of the regime’s thugs (alive)
Stone both, the regime’s president and soldiers
Those on feet, tanks or jets
Then kiss all the towns you enter (liberate)
This the land of the free men and women
Drink from Euphrates, Al-Aasee and Barada (Syrian rivers)
These are rivers with pure water
If you are a pilgrim in Syria, you have to stand on two mountains
On Al-Zawia, from where Hanano fought the invaders (the French)
And on Kassion which I used to call my neighbor
A mountain that symbolizes the feeling of pride
Then walk between Al-Malikia and Latakia
And between Aleppo and Damascus, where the final destiny will be decided
When you enter Damascus
Look for its brutal Sultan
Search for him in the sink pipes before you do in his palace
As the brave doesn’t brag about massacres
Damascus was the beginning, and will be the end
It will witness the end of that gang to the graveyards
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Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Houston, Texas
Friday October 19, 2012
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry