1. I raised myself not to remain as it was
Awaiting a mirage or fearing pitfalls

2. And I grew up not to continue being gentle
With which the malicious would try their luck

3. The likes of what treachery has perfectly woven
Remind me of what I was oblivious to yesterday

4. Experiences I did not have the patience to endure
While I have enough other things that suffice me

5. So I did not find any good or advice that compensates
For the evil and betrayal I received

6. It suffices to inform me that my ambitions are
The joys of people who come after me

7. And I saw nothing but that I am not suited
To the meanness which I sought to obtain

8. Whenever I reflect on what I intend
And want it to be ideal

9. And in a situation I was forced to wear it
A stumbling soul, failure, and shame

10. I pitied the souls of the ambitious poets
I want them to be humbled to the ground

11. I was amazed by a people who beget an eminent individual
A passionate, wise, energetic and aware person

12. Who wants for him a path of glory not loving
And an era in which he wants eras to pass

13. Who removes laziness from its place
And pushes it like a strong wind

14. And strains the dear soul with thinking
To free a slave or guide one who is lost

15. And provokes oblivious spirits
With its poetry and hidden meanings

16. Every day he sacrifices a piece of his heart
Casting it to the youth as rhymes

17. Without anyone asking how his night passed
Or how he met the morning, dark and gloomy

18. Ambition complained about a barren sea so
I fed it the bitterness of rhymes constantly

19. It is not complaining but provoking
The roaring lion may seem complaining

20. I cursed the free conscience, the curse of an angry person
Who sees obedience as praiseworthy so defames avoidance

21. I was self-sufficient in what I mixed with
If I were the exploiter and the one who flatters

22. And I would have been comfortable if I lacked it
A feeling that non-existence granted me in what it granted me

23. By my life I will outline a plan
That doubles my affliction or becomes my remedy

24. And I will show the days the vengeance of a hater
If he demanded it and did injustice in the demand

25. I do not want placid fate to return
At the hands of one who stirs it up against me

26. But with a palm that taught its palm
To fight or the palm falls weak

27. Can I see myself sending into my temperament
My hands doing as they wish aimlessly?

28. Then let people uncover a soul that was covered
With dust covering the honored feathers

29. I found a useful cure in honesty
When my soul lacked a healing doctor

30. There was a ladder in evasion and serenity
In my heart if I let go of evasion

31. Iraq's generosity granted me the best it grants
A poet of truth and justice calling

32. It came to me like rain I wished for in summer
And livelihood like I wished for in the cup remaining

33. A livelihood that if I survey it I say about it:
"It is enough of an affliction to see death as healing"

34. And it promised me after death a celebration
In which singers generously sing elegies

35. And a banquet in which you see palms that hastened
My thirst, drawing the rivers upon me

36. That is a "hand" my tongue fell short of thanking
So I instructed my children and dependents about it

37. And that "Euphrates" is equal to thanking it
If I die let it repeat the rivers upon it

38. The flower of life which they think
Is life, not firewood that decays with old age

39. And I reviewed its chapters in this register
Turning days in it and nights

40. I judge myself how an arid land had become accustomed
To watering it, and tomorrow, and a barren, waterless land

41. And what it benefited from countries that attacked
The sheep, and turned into preying beasts

42. Does time amuse you while the ascendant
Brings people nothing but sorrows?

43. They recount the states of life as enjoyment
While you recount life as wishes

44. And when it refused an excuse to stand on its own
It passed claiming defeat if it does not wear rags

45. Precautions with which the deceiver appeases himself
And recklessness leaves him avoiding them

46. And there is no good in rebellion you attempt
If exhaustion did not bow to the tyranny of separation

47. And no longer obstructs my purpose or blocks my path
And exhaustion did not bow the persevering determination

48. If civilization hated me as an enemy
Then nomadic life praised me as a nomad

49. Patient with its afflictions, not thinking it
More painful than having enemies

50. But I grieve for the morals of a group
Who count good traits as equal

51. It sees every audacious dissident as its enemy
And every easy, pliant person as an ally

52. This is an affliction that rains evil as a warning
And this is an epidemic that floods the people overwhelmingly