1. Two years have not yet passed, and she had
Years of self-confidence

2. The toddler walks examining visions
As the artist entered the studio

3. On the "sidewalk" his walk did not fail
No one behind, no one pushed him forward

4. While his mother supervised him constantly
And he tomorrow will be supervisor and supporter

5. While the sixty year old in his opinion
Had inspiration coming to him from genius

6. He intermingles in the "street" around him
Dangers amass in heaps

7. I greeted him, so a mouth replied to me
Like the mouth of a warbling nightingale

8. And a face smiled that had no clouds
Illuminating the full moon and covering it

9. Two years have not passed, yet in his eyes
A million years have passed collecting years

10. O son of civilizations fathered from father
Surrounded by uncles and paternal uncles

11. Remaining gentle from its gentleness
And a mark, and in the loins a seal

12. In every field of its fields
A scent spreads from talkative history

13. A mother fed you her breast milk a blessing
And her lessons understanding and explanation

14. Her breaths caressed your face
Making it like a branch full of flowers

15. The breezes of youth hovered over it
And its melodies touched your soul

16. And it sang love and its tunes
So it made your hearing tunes more keen

17. O son of civilizations, and how many injustices
Stingy, and how many unjust dividers

18. Are they whims? Or wisdom?
Or are they goblets and blamers?

19. How many good brothers you have in this lowly life
Who would be subjugated in the market of humiliation

20. And aspirations like yours great
That bow down if they are safe from harm

21. Ingenious that were created and from their makeup
"Ingenious" and most learned came about

22. Who stopped because they did not have
A people like your people, and groups

23. Shaking them in the cradle a hand shook from
Hunger, and humiliation, and illnesses

24. Their songs confused them and they slept
Black shadows and dreams

25. And they sucked poisoned milk that made their flesh rot
And made pains seep into their blood

26. They shepherded an infertile ocean so they huddled
As sheep huddled in the desert

27. O son of civilizations: And myths
Are ideal examples, and fantasies

28. That sedate the hungry, and visions
Are black, and the glimpse of light an illusion

29. And ignorance is ungrateful for what is in existence
Of splendor...and nonexistence is termination

30. O son of civilizations: Have constitutions and laws
Been substituted with misery and tents?

31. The deception of faces and inside them
The worst that abdomens contained

32. It makes you laugh, the lamented, you do not see
How praise and blame are weighed

33. Stars have been trampled...except one star
That a leader has not discovered yet

34. In it are wonders, and from its soil
Were created Amalekites and dwarves

35. Some crushing others boldly eating their flesh
While feet are not asked!

36. And people are stolen...and their homelands
By a thief, whose thumb is not cut off

37. And a law of slaughtering your neighbor
And that slaughter be made mandatory

38. And customs in it are worshipped
Like rocks and idols are worshipped

39. For every custom there is its value, just as
Values and sizes are weighed

40. And it hobbles thought and its people
However a lamp wishes, and a bridle

41. A crime the size of a palm...in a world
Whose pebbles sins have covered

42. Millions of wounds descended upon it
That were healing in the forest

43. And the earth is a forest in it of its good
And evil...light and darkness

44. And beasts roam it like them
Wolves, snakes, and hyenas

45. And from blood that was shed in it healing
The flowers' buds bloomed

46. The ruled may eat from the flesh in it
And rulers may be eaten

47. Will Mars be inhabited with an ambition
That mines be planted in the land?