1. You were a ghost hovering in my imagination
Wherever I turned, I found you before me

2. On my right when I looked right
And my left when I looked left

3. Like a star shining a beautiful smile
In the gloom of night from a high place

4. And I extend my hand to you in
The pleading of the desperate and bored one

5. You told me, if you want us to whisper
Come near me and in the dunes come up

6. I said I cannot do that, I
In my doubts, weaker in the marshes

7. You said try it yourself, can't you?
So I tried, and my fatigue became evident

8. Nature has put in my hands the most
Precious things, so what can I do with shackles?

9. I cannot come near except if you
Freed me or lightened my burdens

10. Then when the night advanced
And dawn came in white dress

11. People woke up from their hatreds
Saluting the procession of the sun rising in majesty

12. What had appeared that day was not
To me but a phantom of the truth, bare

13. And I see today with my eyes what
I had seen before in my imagination

14. Blessed is the planet shone
From Iraq's sky until it changed

15. A planet full of beauty, so I do not
See its equal in the party of beauty

16. A planet that sends white rays
From the east, alone in the nights

17. This meeting was good after waiting
That nearly destroyed our hopes in us

18. And we thought the meeting was impossible
Then the impossible became not impossible

19. And Iraq unanimously agreed on
Greeting the genius and veneration

20. O great poet, greetings
From a lover of the verses you recited

21. And greetings be upon you every day
And greetings be upon you in every case

22. You are a mine from which poems sprang
Like the sea is a mine of pearls

23. This poetry, when you sing it
Is far from reachable

24. I do not fear its fading
It is for eternity, not fading

25. You, if we counted the geniuses
You're one of those heroes

26. Do you see that life despite death
Intentionally in the succession of generations?

27. Do not ask me about the truth, I
Seek the sun in the pits of shadows

28. Do not ask me, for I am from my doubts
Like the one who is suspended on ropes

29. I do not know what my purpose is in my life
What is my existence, what is my beginning, what is my outcome

30. And if my heart disobeys the rule of my mind
My logic and inference do not benefit me

31. My missteps after I lost my way
Is that I see guidance in my misguidance

32. I have not despaired in my path if
I did not stumble like tears in their trails

33. O love and beauty spread
Greetings, both of you are exalted

34. I do not know which of you is that
Highest ideal on the path of perfection

35. And I will remain searching for the truth
Even if exhaustion drops from my wings

36. It is a flower, forbidden to pick
From its thorns with knives

37. A flower filled with beauty and fragrance
That sprang from between pebbles and sands

38. I visited it hoping in the morning but
My tools did not wake it from heavy sleep

39. There is no escape from death in the end
So it's the same whether I cared or not

40. The horror of death is nothing
Compared to the horrors of life

41. Among the minds is a war, whose
Fire still has burning

42. I was not from its paradises, God knows
And today I am burning in its fire

43. And I saw time in a cycle
The origin of eternity is in decay

44. Perhaps the soul that remains
Is a substance in its carpenter not worn

45. And perhaps the body that decays
Is a vehicle one day for a sublime soul

46.
O electricity, you are my answer

47. To the masses in every question
The accidents will remain reactions

48. Then perish in the active substance
Then appear anew

49. Then disappear in succession
We connected, then disconnected, so who can

50. Connect without later disconnecting?
I said to myself, "Do not fear death, it is but

51. Transition, nothing but a transfer."
But the disobedient soul does not find

52. Its weapon in the struggle
Criticize my soul, taking her

53. To task for her excessive love of life
I do not cry in my old age for the past

54. But I cry for my future
Cry if you want in sorrow, and if

55. Crying is improper for men
Widows when they cry, their weakness

56. Excuses the bereaved woman
And virgins when they cry, they may cry

57. From the harshness of ardent youth
Perhaps the difference was not small

58. Between a tear of pain and a tear of coquetry

59. How beautiful are the tears that swim
In the eye's pool like children

60. As if the eye that is crying
Is a basin and the tears in it pearls

61. Promise the sun to restore glory to us
And fulfill its promises with hopes

62. O Orient! You were while the West slept
The source of light in bygone years

63. And you were in civilization a
Teacher dictating lessons of glory

64. The power of knowledge has left you
Until the matter reversed, portending ruin