1. My excuse to an ally of noble traits
Whose fame shines beyond any ideal

2. Who came as a guest but became house master
Ruling with his rod and plumb line

3. And named himself trustee by force
With full authority in any case

4. Yet I'm no orphan, nor a feeble old man
With delicate, skinny bones

5. And named himself my lifetime guardian
So he equaled me with old maids

6. And acted superior to me against my will
Yet I'm no minor on day of strife

7. Stingy with my money, spendthrift on others
With my assets and riches

8. Teaching me frugality in my livelihood
While enjoying delicacies from my yields

9. And pushing me to bitter asceticism
While taking anything cheap or expensive

10. And denying me legal, clean earnings
While taking the forbidden or the lawful

11. What I dread most that he warns against
And alerts me of terrible consequences

12. Is the gold my ancestors had collected
Over days and times long past

13. I emptied my purse and pockets
And whatever was in my saddlebags

14. Yet, may God reward him for me
According to his intentions and actions

15. He changed it all into papers
Stamped with "capital asset"

16. May God protect it from "antelope head"
Flying away daily in the winds

17. Melting if touched by moisture
Or nibbled by booklice

18. Crumbling while still in my pocket
So I mourn for losses and ruin

19. Powerless to climb like the elderly
Descending in haste to decay

20. He herded my flock till pastures withered
And livestock neared death from emaciation

21. And caused rift between siblings and family
So they separated and broke ties

22. He shared with me, taking the loot as his luck
Keeping the spoils and bounty

23. Out of love for peace, he took my weapons
To spare me from fighting

24. After that he burdened my back
With a load to crush mountain peaks

25. So he trained me to bear calamities
And taught me patience and endurance

26. And gagged my mouth lest I complain
Or gossip spreads one day about me

27. And embarrassed me till I left
But when he saw me unbothered

28. He called me to reconcile after snubbing
And dispute and fighting

29. And hugged me gleefully
And shook my hand ceremoniously

30. But shackled me worse than snakes
And tied my hands like slaughtered chickens

31. Then simpered like a wolf smiling
At a lamb - what a vile beast!

32. And swore no deal if we don't
Remain meekly in the shadows

33. Lowering his voice below a caller's
Unlike a muezzin's or auctioneer's

34. And swore alliance and named me an ally
So I didn't break faith or act greedy

35. I accepted the measly trickle of promise
Soured by excuses and delays

36. No healing for stab of traitor
With deceitful flashes or glimmers

37. And promised me a fixed date
When his rule will end

38. Nearly a plot and scheme
And slyness of chaotic lawless times

39. We met such as was never met
During delegation and occupation

40. So many sly experts vanished
And villains pretended to be fools

41. And counselors and advisors bluffed
With civility and diplomacy

42. They challenged us defiantly and cunningly
Mobilizing riffraff and scoundrels

43. Seduced every rogue and bootlicker
And spread myths of heresy's tyrants

44. I remember when the wolf once
Disturbed a flock with murky water

45. When you fulfill a pledge to one promised
You preoccupy with coughing and throat-clearing

46. And listens when I ask for clarification
Though he knows not the language of imagination

47. The British say no, and Turkish armies
Threaten with bared swords

48. What do you know, some folks
Protest believing the North Pole?

49. He brandished his sword for twenty years
To discipline the "rebels" among the locals

50. But when the foreigners invaded my home
His sword complained of weariness

51. Ask Alexandria about strange affairs
That never crossed the mind

52. Is it politics' bane to break a pact
And prefer the opponent over loyalists?

53. What full "tales" spread and prolonged
Through peninsula highlands!

54. Isn't it foolish for prompting voice
To come from behind a screen?

55. And fictional characters of the tale
Are monkeys, jerboas, or ostriches

56. They came down to scavenge the battlefield
Rodents, hedgehogs, and snakes in the dens

57. The steeds turned away from the barns
Fretting in the reins and fences

58. Will you burn me with my fuel in my land
And bequeath it to roaming thugs?

59. I committed no sin or crime
Except joining you with my ropes

60. Suppose the young opposed us
Why heed the vulgar and vile?

61. Even angels include an outcast
Do nations lack lowlifes?

62. We sent you an honest trustee
Who can match the trustee (Abu Rigal)?

63. I say while in the era of harmony
May God quench your thirst, O era of struggle

64. Politics never lacks deceit
Though not all politics is but fraud

65. Tell the messenger I made an excuse
And you were stellar on the course

66. Eyes raced you in tribulations
Like eyes gaze toward the crescent

67. Does a traitor from greed refuse
And a wronged one accept? That is obstinacy's essence!

68. Giving generously with the right hand
Then seizing with the left hand after refusal?

69. Adding an appendix to the pact's book
Like a lizard's tail, long and curled?

70. Come, convey to him equally
Don't covers up in questioning

71. If you dispute something then speak well
No noble person probes in debate

72. I don't crave a union
If he wishes to abandon me

73. So many a lover shunned a beloved
Exceeding in sickness and anguish

74. If not for being called pact-breaker
I'd tell him, "Relieve me, for I have changed"

75. I saw the disease disable without a cure
Where is the cure for the chronic disease?

76. Haven't you, as they admitted, recovered
From the shackles? So break free from the tether!