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Crisis in Syria
Your history so long and tortuous,
Of caliphate, of sultanate and dynasty,
In symbiosis bold and venturous..
To famed Aleppo's glorious citadel,
Fierce Turks, Seleucids, and the mongul Kahn,
But' .'neath Bashar Al-Assad you know hell.
You built and paved the famed Damascus Road,
(assisting thus the spread Christendom),
That Paul, Apostle and his saints bestrode,
Then Mandates harsh- vicissitude of life,
Uncertain a Republic then gave way
To Party Ba'ath, where cruelty could but thrive.
But now your children are mowed down like grass,
And now you suffer torment unheard of
With wanton ruthless killing sprees en masse.
Who is assisted in the killing spree,
In blatant and most coward Genocide,
And yet to be revealed atrocity.
But bards and wordsmiths singers can do naught
'gainst ruthless powers that care not a bean,
But kicking Cola cans along the road..
Of infant, toddler, adults and young teen, ,
With no more food, nor shalter, salve and water
And desperate oldsters look out for lost kin.
For peace or war in the spent Middle-East,
We see your agony and we bow low,
Your great affliction makes you one with Christ
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