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We are accused of terrorism	A
if we defended rose and woman	B
and the mighty verse	C
and the blueness of sky	D
A dominion nothing left therein	E
No water no air	F
No tent no camel	G
and not even dark Arabica coffee	H
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we defended with guts	I
the hair of Balqis	I
and the lips of Maysun	E
if we defended Hind and Da d	H
Lubna and Rabab	J
and the stream of Kohl	K
coming down from their lashes like the verses of revelation	E
You will not find with me	H
a secret poem	A
or a secret logos	I
or books I put behind doors	I
I do not even have one poem	A
walking down the street wearing veil	L
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we wrote about the ruins of a homeland	M
torn weak	N
a homeland with no address	I
and an nation with no names	I
	-
I seek the remnants of a homeland	M
none of its grand poems is left	O
except the bemoans of Khansa	I
	-
I seek a dominion in whose horizons	I
no freedom can be found	P
red blue or yellow	Q
	-
A homeland forbidding us from bying a newspaper	R
or listening to the news	I
A dominion wherein birds are forbidden	E
from chirping	S
A homeland wherein out of terror ru b	H
its writers got accustomed to write about	T
nothing	S
A homeland in the likeness of poetry in our lands	I
It is vain talk	U
no rhythm	A
imported	V
Ajam with a crooked face and tongue	W
No beginning	S
No end	X
No relation with people's worry	H
mother earth	Y
and the crisis of man	E
	-
A dominion	E
going to peace talks	I
with no honor	R
no shoe	Z
	-
A homeland	M
men peed in their pans	I
women are those left to defend honor	R
	-
Salt in our eyes	I
Salt in our lips	I
Salt in our words	I
Can the self carry such dryness	I
An inheritance we got from the barren Qahtan	E
In our nation no Mu awiya and no Abu Sufiyan	E
No one is left to say 'NO'	E
and face the quitters	I
they gave up our houses our bread and our olive oil	A2
They transformed our bright history into a mediocre store	B2
	-
In our lives no poem is left	O
since we lost our chastity in the bed of the Sultan	E
	-
They got accustomed to us the humbled	C2
What is left to man	E
when all that remains	I
is disgrace	I
	-
I seek in the books of history	H
Ussamah ibn al Munqith	Y
Uqba ibn Nafi	H
Omar and Hamzah	I
and Khalid driving his flocks conquering the Shem	A
I seek a Mu tasim Billah	A2
Saving women from the cruelty of rape	D2
and the fire	R
	-
I seek latter days men	E
All I can see is frightened cats	I
Scared for their own souls from	A
the sultanship of mice	I
	-
Is this an overwhelming national blindness	I
Are we blind to colors	I
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
If we refuse to die	D
with Israel's bulldozers	I
tearing our land	M
tearing our history	H
tearing our Evangelium	A
tearing our Koran	E
tearing the graves of our prophets	I
If this was our sin	E
then lo how beautiful terrorism is	I
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we refused to be effaced	M
by the hands of the Mogul Jews and Barbarians	I
if we throw a stone	E
at the glass of the the Security Council	A2
after the Ceasar of Ceasars got a hold of it	M
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we refuse to negociate with the wolf	H
and shake the hand with a whore	B2
America	E2
Against the cultures of the peoples	I
with no culture	R
Against the civilizations of the civilized	M
with no civilization	E
America	E2
a mighty edifice	I
with no walls	I
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we refused an era	E2
America became	A
the foolish the rich the mighty	M
translated sworn	E
in Hebrew	Z
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we throw a rose	I
to Jerusalem	A
to al Khalil	A2
to Ghazza	I
to an Nasirah	Z
if we took bread and water	Z
to beleaguered Troy	Z
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we raised our voices against	M
the regionalists of our leaders	I
All changed their rides	I
from Unionists	I
to Brokers	I
	-
If we committed the heinous crime of culture	Z
if we revolted against the orders of the grand caliph	H
and the seat of the caliphate	M
If we read jurisprudence or politics	I
If we recalled God	M
and read verse al Fat h	-
that Chapter of Conquest	M
If we listened to the Friday sermon	E
then we are well established in the art of terrorism	A
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we defended land	M
and the honor of dust	M
if we revolted against the rape of people	A2
and our rape	D2
if we defended the last palm trees in our desert	M
the last stars in our sky	D
the last syllabi of our names	I
the last milk in our mothers' bosoms	I
if this was our sin	E
how beautiful is terrorism	A
	-
I am with terrorism	A
if it is able to save me	M
from the immigrants from Russia	I
Romania Hungaria and Poland	M
	-
They settled in Palestine	E
set foot on our shoulders	I
to steal the minarets of al Quds	I
and the door of Aqsa	I
to steal the arabesques	I
and the domes	I
	-
I am with terrorism	A
if it will free the Messiah Jesus of Nazareth	Y
and the virgin Meriam Betula	A2
and the holy city	M
from the ambassadors of death and desolation	E
	-
Yesteryear	Z
The nationalist street was fervent	M
like a wild horse	I
The rivers were abundant with the spirit of youth	Y
	-
But after Olso	I
we no longer had teeth	Y
we are now a blind and lost people	A2
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we defended with full force	I
our poetic heritage	F2
our national wall	A2
our rosy civilization	E
the culture of flutes in our mountains	I
and the mirrors displaying blackened eyes	I
	-
We are accused of terrorism	A
if we defended what we wrote	M
El azure of our sea	I
and the aroma of ink	G2
if we defended the freedom of the word	M
and the holiness of books	I
	-
I am with terrorism	A
if it is able to free a people	A2
from tyrants and tyranny	I
if it is able to save man from the cruelty of man	E
to return lemon olive tree and bird to the South of Lebanon	E
and the smile back to Golan	E
	-
I am with terrorism	A
if it will save me	I
from the Caesar of Yehuda	I
and the Caesar of Rome	A
	-
I am with terrorism	A
as long as this new world order	Z
is shared	M
between America and Israel	A2
half half	H
	-
I am with terrorism	A
with all my poetry	I
with all my words	I
and all my teeth	Y
as long as this new world	M
is in the hands of a butcher	Z
	-
I am with terrorism	A
if the U S Senate	M
enacts judgment	M
decrees reward and punishment	M
	-
I am with Irhab terrorism	A
as long this new world order	Z
hates the smell of A rab	J
	-
I am with terrorism	A
as long as the new world order	Z
wants to slaughter my off spring	S
and send them to dogs	I
	-
For all this	I
I raise my voice high	D
I am with terrorism	A
I am with terrorism	A
I am with terrorism	A