God and a drop of oil is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Maha Bechara

WE WILL NOT MARTYR

-1-

They kill the people and say:

They have become martyrs...

Their names are written with light,

Their age is vowed to their country,

Their death... What death!?...

They sang for it...

To become a mother's joy

For a false word...

Who still doesn't understand.

-2-

Please, Our Maker..

Separate between the tyrant

And the tyrannised,

Between who is strangling us with his hand

And who is wiping off our blood.

We were born so that we could live,

Dawn will come out of our eyes

Shining the world in the betrayal of night

And from its tomb

It will rise again..

-3-

Their lie is much more

Than You could imagine,

You can see it on their lips

Yellow,

Dry like a curse

Waiting for ears

To get drunk on its wine.

Their lie...

From the beginning was a "dealer"

His deals will never lose,

A builder...

His houses are tombs,

We are paying him for them

But they were built from our skulls.

-4-

We were born to glorify Your name

And drew a picture of You

As big as the world,

Staring at it without fatigue.

And You take us in Your dream

So we can grow bigger...

Till we become hoary..

Children are playing around us

With love,

Goodness and feeling,

Not one Judas

Can come near them

To fill up his cup with their blood

To wither their golden bunch.

-5-

We will not let our present and future

Be wasted together.

And those who were born of our flanks

We will not send them to death as a gift

For the leaders

To be more powerful,

For their dirty politics

And their large vaults

That are full of money

Jewels,

Young girls,

And men were castrated on a morning.

-6-

It was too late for us to learn

How to resist a criminal temper!...

How to wipe off the black word

In the darkness of the night!...

But when they require more martyrs

For their great high rank...

We will stand against them face to face,

Holding a poisoned sword in our hands

To cut off their necks and say:

"O God...No more pity".

-7-

In the name of religion

We have been deceived by evil men

They said: "We are holy men"

It's impossible for devils to go to heaven.

O God..

Our problem is..

We always believe what they say,

Your Book is held in their hands

And we do dignify Your Books.

But in the same vessel

We will give them more,

We will judge them

Because in Your name

They slaughtered brains,

So we could grow up to be proud of You.

-8-

We don't want to martyr...

We want to die the way

You choose for us,

Only You can help us

To annihilate some traitors...

Every time we get along

They separate us..

Their hell

Makes us forget the real hell.

What are they?!...

A gang..

Proud of its shame?!..

They opened a bank in our temple

And changed our country into a brothel.

-9-

The death which is called "destiny"

Occurred under Your command,

Whenever history is slashed

We will find more mysteries:

Governors inheriting governors,

Regime dominating other regimes,

Castles are foddering some men,

Masters full of lies,

But who defended to save his country

From the colonist...

Became a forgettable song

A word with unmentionable memory.

.. And the enemy whom he was fighting,

Became the governors of his country

.. And the people

Which he martyred his blood for them

To accomplish their dreams

Became servants for the enemies.

-10-

Not every martyrdom can be truly called...

Or should be consecrated...

Like, the mother who died

When her family was threatened by evil

Like, who gave the world the light

To rub off the gloominess

With their words

And like, who were crucified coercively

By Lucifer..

To execute his rules.

-11-

We are passing away

But everything is staying behind:

The house...

The decorated land with creeks,

The borders which have been drawn

On paper

To separate a unified humanity

In a world..

Will inoculate human kind forever.

-12-

We will always be brothers

No matter how far, is the distance,

Our " seed " is very well known.

Why do I need the power

Against brothers

They used to be on my side

Before, they followed their self-interests

And their days have beaten my days.

I left them behind...

They forgot me...

The perplexity was confused between us.

And the time was representing them

Like enemies in front of me.

-13-

I won't kill my brother with my own hand

Nor carry his blood on my shoulders.

O God...

I want to spread a new idea:

"He who will martyr in a world

Based, from the beginning, on a lie

Will be wasting his life".

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