1. O poetry, who do you expect will love you more,
Or stay dazzled by you from afar?

2. The flowers of spring were born in remoteness,
So they were imbued with its fragrant breeze.

3. Beauty walked accompanying it through its fields -
Transcendent, like the immaculate Christ.

4. The decades of its years came with their heritage
To the knowledgeable, decades of gems.

5. Forget it, O poetry - never think
That the ungrateful are worthy or splendid.

6. He rose at dawn and made sacrifices in the name
Of steadfastness until he walked to the cross, the most noble steadfast one.

7. How could you forget the inspired creator?
His brilliance fills consciences like faith.

8. He who toured the world of arts and remains
The conquering wanderer, though not boastful.

9. He who created wondrous tales, as
The Able God created with his divine creativity.

10. He who chained phrases into a thrilling
Symphony and epics of the magician.

11. He who brought history back to its lessons -
Wisdom, stopping it in the present.

12. He who taught humanity noble morals
That shone with the dawn’s radiance, the rebel.

13. He who taught altruism as the creed for all
Racing his brother to forgive.

14. He who philosophized the poetry that sang to him
Until its streams flowed like a teeming sea.

15. He who thought his seriousness and jest
Were like verses for believer and skeptic.

16. Abdel Masih the genius - and for genius
His nature is exceptionally rare.

17. We rallied around his glories
Like ships around a lighthouse.

18. Or like bees crazed with passion
For nectar, around meadows of flowers.

19. We came to celebrate in gratitude but perhaps
The splendor of celebration eludes the ungrateful.

20. The sun may complain of its penetrating rays
Obscured, belittled by lesser beams.

21. His forty-five years
Signaled this celebration like heralds.

22. Bringing us novel creativity - though long
Radiant and constant like a revolving lighthouse.

23. He who missed its creativity missed
Its illuminating rays beyond curtains.

24. I mourn for him multiples of what is mourned for us
And if he persists in mockery and jest

25. Truth cannot be hidden by the mocker’s aberration
Like God cannot be denied by the sinner’s wrath.