1. Do you know, O Sanaa, what is happening?
You are dying, in a people dying without knowing

2. You are dying, but every day after
You die, you are ashamed of your miserable death

3. And the plague sucks you, do not ask it:
Until when? For it makes the stay pleasant and spreads

4. You die: but in anticipation of a birth
So you forget or your glamorous date forgets you

5. Are you looking today for your face that
You lost or for your other modern face

6. To where? Do you know from where? Maybe
You rose without a face and were absent without a back?

7. You walk from grave to grave to search
Behind the tranquility of burial for the bustle of resurrection

8. Do you inhale the dawn in darkness without
Calm, without a star to indicate the dawn?

9. In vain everything in you, do not ask it:
Why? Doesn't anything matter to you?

10. Even the hilltops in you sold their foreheads
And did not know what they sell and what they buy!

11. Even the evenings of summer in you without visions
And even the flowers of spring in you without fragrance

12. And even the streams in you, their summer was lost
And even the channels lost the source of the river

13. And even the love songs, their longing died in them
And even the eyes of poetry in you without poetry

14. Do you know that the sun above you does not see
And that your sick nights do not flow

15. In vain you chant the dawn in any horizon
And in your eyes the dawn or the night of decree