1. No shore remains for ships to return
No airport for sorrow to land

2. Nothing left but hopes that console us
Thanks be to God, no family or homeland!

3. You've been forsaken, O Damascus, my mother and wet nurse
And cradle of love - what price, I wonder?

4. I'm ashamed to remain alive
While my mother is wrapped in her shroud

5. Why make excuses? My heart denies me now
Greet death, in it lies life and rest

6. How can I live when my veins are under the earth
And my loved ones lie buried in dust?

7. Where can I go when all the earth rejects us
And scorns us - the whole earth is defiled!

8. Who are we? We are the sun over them
Who are we? We are the eye and the ear

9. All maps are part of our map
So how can cowards lord over their masters?!

10. O Death, what a beautiful homeland for one
Who came to you a martyr, wounded by the homeland!

11. I bid farewell to Homs though my heart is in its alleys
And memories and a soul it nurtured

12. And I complained to my Lord of my tears' confinement
About my soul - for sorrow is never done justice

13. All those we hoped for aid abandoned us
So register that, O Time!

14. Hotel-dwellers, their dinars give them no honor
They grow more foolish as they grow fatter

15. They fret in the morning though they've slept
They fret in the evening though they've rested

16. They denounce the massacre on their screens
While all have bloodied hands

17. O neglecter of duty distracted by supererogation
By God, on Judgement Day, no sunna will intercede!

18. O Damascus, if dreams could save us
We would have dreamed - but dreams are smoke

19. So we had no choice but war to restore
The Prophet's era when civil war is averted

20. We want the world returned to our grip
So God is worshipped, not idols

21. We want to restore the glory of its state
When we were saved from tribulations

22. Whenever Sanaa rose against, Damascus
And Baghdad called: Here is Yemen's pillar!

23. Joy was never without preceding sorrow
Secrets were never revealed without being hidden

24. And a baby, no matter how much food you offer
Finds only milk the sweetest thing

25. So I, like all the dispossessed, long for
A time when there were no dispossessed

26. How can I live comfortably in a house
When a girl in my country has no shelter?

27. How can I savor a meal
When my people crave bread and whey?

28. Bomb, nations, seethe; leaders, denounce; my people, do not despair
God has taken the Prophet's pledge: no fear or sorrow for you

29. However wide the exile, the homeland remains vaster
No place more spacious than the corners of one's own land

30. Tell the doctor, as the sun of life sets
When my time comes, of what use are injections?

31. By God, Lord of heaven and earth, my reliance
In Him is my patience, to Him outward and inward

32. My hopes are not cut off by our uprising
For each ugly face comes a beautiful one after