To Geneva, for the Third Time
By Tarif Youssef Agha
To Geneva, for the third time, they go,
To waste more time and shed more blood, they go
They will exchange accusations, curses and threats,
Then, they will leave
They made a bad series from the city,
Where the (Assad) regime is represented by dirty actors
When Al-Jaffary is the head of the regime delegation,
Then I assure that the members are pimps
To those who want to negotiate on behalf of a war criminal (Assad), I say
‘No one represents war criminals but criminals’
The entire world is playing games to keep him in power,
The entire world is doing so to gain the blessing of Israel
Nothing matters to the world more than this blessing,
Even if the entire glob is flooded with tears
Even if a country is burned, its people are forced to flee,
And all who are left, are taken to jails
We feel that the entire world is against us,
And that every one is trying to kill us
We expected the world to help us, but it became our enemy,
And we thought our revolution would be fast, be we were disappointed
We expected the victory to be waiting at the door,
We thought it would take months, but years passed and it is not over yet
The Syrian people will never forgive or forget,
They will make their enemies pay all the debts in full
Those who participated in slaughtering our people,
A day will come when we will make them drink from the same cup of death
Three are responsible for our calamity,
Primarily Israel, but also Russia and Iran
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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 February 12, 2016, Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry