1. What awaits me! What is my expectation! What is my endurance!
What is my coming! What is my going! What is my sitting!

2. If I become incapable of carrying my sword
To defend my existence and being

3. And I stand mute unable
To say no to quasi-apes

4. And I fail to get a loaf which has become
A lying promise like the rest of my promises

5. And I drink mud while my
Enemy drinks its clarity behind the dams

6. And I eat dry bread while oil lights up
Like stars above the mountains of my ancestors

7. And I walk the walk of the limping so that
The face does not take my share of the food

8. And I roof my house with palm fronds while my palace
Is only two miles from my border

9. And I sneak like a night dog whenever the winds
Smell gunpowder from the soldiers

10. And I connect the darkness with light to earn
Two measly coins from the progeny of the Indians

11. And I ride my feet so I can spend the night
Among my family while the road is uphill

12. And I rejoice whenever my boss buys
A luxury “Audi” car with my blood money

13. And I bow twice to the heir
So he extends my mother’s bank with money

14. And I sharpen the nail of the sheikh of sedition so
I can light up for two hours with firewood

15. And I go out barefoot until I congratulate
What remains of remnants with resilience

16. And I gloat over a relative and rejoice
At the victory of my homeland’s archenemy

17. And I thanked those who came to me with Jews
Because they returned to reinforce my resilience!

18. And free me from my ancestors’ myths!
And liberate my women from my shackles!

19. And call for the right to deviance
And bring back Sodom into existence

20. What is my prayer! What is my crying! What is my fasting!
What is my prayer! What is my bowing! What is my prostration!

21. If I bent their path the course of my messenger
And alienation sufficed, without my answers

22. And I witnessed their beating of my sister Nisa
Casting blame on her with composure

23. And I choked the truth while it is a father protecting
Those who married my mother to a Jew

24. And I disobeyed God openly so it is said
That my thinking is free from rigidity

25. And I took pride in a forefather who bites like a lion
Despite having lived a slave to apes