Two Years
Two Years
By Tarif Youssef Agha
Two years and our people are still being slaughtered by knives
Two years and the whole world is doing nothing but barking
A country is swimming in its blood
While everyone is playing, as in theater
The people of Syria understand, beyond any doubt, now
What the whole world wants for them
***
Two years and our people live with massacres
The whole world is watching them moving to refugee camps
Even so some profiteers take advantage of their miseries
As it is pure business
Meanwhile others accuse some fighters of being terrorists
It looks like nobody wants our revolution to succeed
Every time a request by the world is met, another one comes
It looks like nobody wants our revolution to win
It looks like the whole world is in the same bed with our regime
The world closes its eyes while our regime gets more violent
The Iranians thinks that Syria is a province of Iran
While the Russians want to save their military bases there
The Chinese want to keep their business with Assad
And the Israelis do not want to give away the Golan
Everyone has his reason to support the Assad regime
Obviously nobody cares about our people
We will not trust anyone anymore
We will not trust but our guns
The butchers are those who will leave Syria
We will stay
Even if mountains could move from their spots
Still, the people could not be moved from their homeland
He who has been inflicted with severe wounds for two wears and still resisting
No wounds can hurt him anymore
And more important
No one can stop him anymore
History has never known such a revolution before
A revolution that unveiled the hypocrisy of the whole world
***
A Poem translation
Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Sunday March 17, 2013
Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry