1. Who? I said: It's me, oh gazelle
Hello to paralyzed letters

2. Hello! In a fatal dialect
That fears it will become slain

3. What do you fear? Do I not have
Prayers connected in the house?

4. Are you not a friend who knows me
These stuffed rooms?

5. This lounge lying down
These polished walls

6. Climb, but does she have in her mouth
Another, or my ears unplugged?

7. And I climbed like an anxious stranger
Crossing unknown cliffs?

8. And with me climbed, she seemed
My frustration drunk

9. Like a schemer whom they rule
Who died, or became isolated

10. In middle age her eyes
Generations of elongated promises

11. And shards of a battle that began
Victory and returned defeated

12. She welcomed, and increased hospitality
Like a lame bride's parade

13. I have a guest, and she extended her hand
To languid closed Lebanon

14. Hello, so he answered like one who makes
Excuses not accepted

15. Sit down, she said it and approached
To recount reasonable news

16. I have neighbors, and the husband of (Huda)
And a doctor who I think has come down

17. And here a laugh snatched me
And the echo of a suppressed cough

18. So I heard from the other room
The breaths of groaning urns

19. Confessions like a slack rope
Under wet clothes

20. Call tones and answers
Gasps of an old woman wailing

21. Laughs of hungry wolves
Whispers of sheep consumed

22. Is this honorable house
Become shared beds?

23. A deceptive home, I raised it
From the false claim braided

24. Can vinegar be just vinegar
Even in the sweetened cup?

25. But why does the guest see
My face horrified

26. I did not come to investigate nonsense
Or fleeting moments

27. I did not come to descend an area
With drunken bats inhabited

28. Tell me: You are without manners
So go, I'm busy

29. I did not come to you hoping
My travels are not expected

30. But I came without reason
Send me back, you're not responsible

31. And I returned as I came without
An aim like confused wind