The Duet of Injustice and Greed
By Tarif Youssef Agha
As long as ‘Injustice’ keeps its sword up
Hitting some with it and excluding others,
Painting the white, black and the black, white,
Honoring criminals and making corruption glorious
Then, the masses will keep boiling with anger
And will keep working hard to topple their rulers in any way possible
So if you saw those masses silent for some time,
Don’t think they gave up or they were struck dumb
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And as long as ‘Greed’ stays the man’s best friend
The wars will keep the world burning in flames
They may call them protective wars or surgical wars
And to justify them, they fill the air with croaking
But they may also call them a mandate or say they are protecting minorities
So you hear them once mooing and once more hee-hawing
But they plant death wherever they stop or go
While crows, behind them, are filling the air with cawing
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‘Injustice’ and ‘Greed’ do not give birth except to wars and revolutions
Freedom can not be accomplished without martyrs
Wars will always end, revolutions will always win
Revolutions will always win, even if the whole world steps in its way
Humiliating the masses is a huge mistake
As they always know the road to dignity
And as soon as they start walking that road
Nothing will stop them, short of the finish line
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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 6, 2015, Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry