1. The Parliament: Has the news of it reached you,
And the news of those sleepy ones in it?

2. They were brought to him with heads bowed down,
The bowing of cowards towards the field of execution.

3. Shame ruled their sights,
So their eyes were fixed on the ground.

4. And if they cast a glance unwittingly,
They looked with the eye of distracted preoccupations.

5. They thought the soldiers were mocking, yet they had come
With signs of veneration and magnifying.

6. They belittled themselves, so no hand was raised to them
For returning a greeting or peace.

7. Until when they took their seats with him,
The place was too narrow for the breadth of their bodies.

8. Its corners crouched over their idols -
Who will bring me an Abraham for the idols?