كأنَّها فوقَ العصا

كأنَّها فوقَ العصا

هامةُ زنجيٍّ عصا

هامةُ زنجيٍّ عصا

As though it were, atop the staff,

As though it were the plume

the head of a Black man who rebelled.

Of a Zanzibari's turban crest