e-poetria la lubnan

We are the Christians
Who have lost their dignity.
We are proud of our divisions
And our hatred towards one another.
The Cross represents our anger:
You are vertical
I am horizontal
And at the center, we clash.

I love to insult you.
It makes me feel good.
I enjoy rendering you to a worthless state of human classification.
I pride in my deplorable trends
And am pleased to have resisted
Unity amongst ourselves.
May God bless me!

We are the Christians
Who enjoy unrestrained authority
Over our constitution and Ta’if.
And we take pride in rendering Lebanon
A victim of our immaturity.
A Bravo is in order
And a flavor of a standing ovation
Is most appropriate,
For we are the Christians
Condemned to an eternal and demented fragmented existence!

Ana- December 4, 2006