This is Kussair

This is Kussair

By Tarif Youssef Agha

This is Kussair (a Syrian city), teaching the invaders a lesson

Invaders from the criminals of the ‘Devil Party’

It is receiving them with the cutting swords of the free people

And it is filling up the cups of death for them to drink

They thought they were going to a picnic

To find out it was a fierce war

They thought it would be like another one of their Israeli theater plays

To find out it was real and it is costing them their lives

They were fooled by being told that it was a holy war

They therefore were given knives and axes

They were also given ‘The Paradise Keys’ and were told that

Each one will find there seventy two attractive brides waiting for him

They didn’t tell them that our Free Syrian Army

Changed the locks and replaced them with mines and shields

They didn’t tell them that Syria is the country of heroes

And that it is protected by God and by its people

A country that was and will always be the graveyard of invaders

It was and will always be the one that shines with suns of freedom

It has always been an oasis to all religions

Ask the followers of Muhammad, Jesus and Moses

An oasis to all, except those who believed that

Slaughtering and burning children is a blessed practice

Kussair carries the proper response to all our enemies

Our enemies from the Shabbihas, Persians and Russians

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A Poem translation

Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday May 24, 2013

Five days after the gangs of Assad and the Shiites Lebanese militias attacked the city of Kussair south west of Homs.

Houston, Texas

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