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.
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry