They Shamed Me

They Shamed Me

By Tarif Youssef Agha

They shamed me for that I, day and night, kept shooting arrows at the oppressors,

And that I didn’t have anything towards them but hostility

They shamed me for making the oppressors my enemies, which I’m proud of,

They shamed me of a deed that deserved a medal, not a shame

They were hard on me because I have always been hard on tyrants,

Tyrants who made the Homeland sink in darkness,

And because I don’t give peace a chance, so I said

“I see peace with butchers anything but legal”

They want to give a chance to the one, who burned the country,

They want to give a chance to the one, who placed the people in refugee camps

When I looked around to see my blamers, I couldn’t see any one,

But when I looked again, I only found dwarfs

Some people don’t know what they are saying,

Just talking is all what they seek from talking

Brainless people can’t be blamed for what they say,

Just like sick or crazy people

You can identify them from their words, even before they do anything,

Their stupidity is a trademark on their tongues

Associating with them makes others lower class,

Their tongues need a knife, so they stop saying those silly things

Talking to them is just like blowing air in a hollow bag,

Giving them a permission to talk should be considered a crime

If they are the only ones left from the human race,

Then, consider the human race being gone

Their rank in life is the same of the oppressors,

As living with either one causes sickness

Keeping away from them is a reward,

As they repeat words as parrots, and follow dogs as sheep

It looks like when their mothers were pregnant with them,

They (their mothers) were around animals

So if you hear the puppies barking,

You should know that bones are all what they want

So they can bark any way they like; it will not bother me,

I will keep sharpening my pens every day in supporting the Revolution

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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 March 15, 2016, Houston, Texas

A person accused me lately of being (too extreme) against the Assad regime. The person also said that the peace talks in Geneva should be given a chance and, therefore, attacking and criticizing the regime should be eased.

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