1. News of you came to me in papers
Of an incident, though no usual capers

2. Of your speech on the train, oh Father Hussein
Not of easy, trivial trainings

3. Glory was struck the day you were hit
Virtue not spared from harm one bit

4. People saddened nobility suppressed
And troubled by stumbling of honorees

5. I'm not of people manners vanished
When their Lord they saw yearning

6. Poetry most anguished in heart
And most eager by you to survive

7. You shunned words a few brief days
A respite for miracles in ways

8. Nights you held back inky vines
Of dread and pen denied their twines

9. Tell me of your displeasure, how fared?
My heart in hurts painful ensnared

10. Grant me from you a line or messenger
To convey your every fine flavor