Shame on the National Villains

To whichever axis they want to drive us, to wherever destination they want to deport us to thrive and get reputed, to whatever destructive or peaceful situation they want to reach, to whenever time of their imagination they glad to restore, they will remain our devilish villains and we will keep our attachment to our homeland. They want it a farm, a forest of conflicting confessions, an unbearable place to live, a discriminative land where the mind vanishes and the instincts rules, where ignorance flourish and knowledge imprisons, where the money speaks and expertise silence, where the strong eats the weak and the wrong rapes the right, where the bats establish their dark kingdom and the light got veiled by spiders' webs, owls' feathers, and rusted doors. They want it a Moredore, we want it a Shire. We will win, they will get lost in the dungeons of history where they can meet their look-alikes.

Its shame to remain acting as herds. Its shame to ignore our seperate identities and personalities and blend with their plans that did prove to bring war and destruction, separation and hatred, disintegration and erosion. Its shame for what so ever reason to remain silent while they rule, to keep our mouths shut while our nation is being torn apart, to drain our human powers and keep the shades.

Its a big shame to have a country who brought Jobran, Sabah, Fayrouz, Abou L Hisin, Wadih, Majida, Amin, Elijah, the Rahbanies ... etc to lack the least ethics of commemorating those giants while they are still alive. Just to make them feel that their years that passed weren’t for nothing. Its shame not to build statues, name the streets, museums, theaters, libraries, and the like with their names just if not to reward them but to advertise our culture among foreigners who just love to visit the home of cedars, the origin of the alphabet, the land of consecutive civilizations, the place of diversity, and the destiny where all Arabs seek shelter to invent and conceive.

Its shame to have Fayrouz not yet honored while her voice is used as a healing remedy in Denmark, while her music is taught in schools, where the whole Lebanese folklore and heritage is drawn by her voice. Its shame to wait until the artist or writer or singer fade away until the government remembers to honor him and give him/her the silly, cheap, meaningless medal. What they need is to feel that the efforts they invested for the sake of their country and its people are being appreciated.

Until our people awakens from the paralyzing environment they have been driven to, our nation, yes our nation, will remain under erosion by all means until the time comes where there will not remain unless those politicians and their “Yes Sir” puppets.