You were busy destroying minarets
Lamenting the minaret of the Omayyad Mosque in Aleppo
By Tarif Youssef Agha
You were busy destroying minarets
After you destroyed complete cities
You took the people and the buildings as hostages
You forgot that you have to pay back
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You were busy committing crimes
Until you were called sons of sin
Therefore, you were hated by all of us
All of us wished you the execution stand
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You were busy robbing
Until you forgot the case
Do you know what the case was?
The people, you sons of hor
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You were busy corrupting
Until you bankrupted the country
And how did you bankrupt the country?
You eat it as though you were grasshoppers
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You were busy barking
Until any medicine became useless with you
Until you became the disease
Until you became the homelands’ worst evil
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You were busy killing
Torturing and dragging
Until you made the boot your icon
No one expects any thing different from illiterate creatures like you
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You were busy backstabbing
Until you left Satan behind
Who ever made his people slaves,
The people will explode like a volcano in his face
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Oh Omayyad Mosque minaret
Don’t be sad as the Syrian people are still strong
They will avenge you and the Omary’s mosque minaret
And all the martyrs of the that proud homeland
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A Poem translation
Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Two days after the Assad regime destroyed the minaret of the historian Omayyad Mosque of Aleppo
Friday April 26, 2013
Houston, Texas
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