1. A Citizen Without a Homeland
Because he is from Yemen

2. His people's land is sold
And bought for nothing

3. He weeps when you ask him
Where are you from? Where are you from?

4. Because he is from nowhere
Or from auctioned publicity

5. A citizen who was protective
From Quba to Aden

6. And today he no longer has
Farms or dwellings

7. No shades of walls
No remnants of arts

8. His country is a line in
The book of Time's Lesson

9. A story about As'ad
A legend about Dhi Yazan

10. A tale about Hoopoe
Who was a trusted agent

11. And about kings who vanished
Or Saba'a million years

12. The king was their king
Other than Qa'ab made of yoghurt

13. And today a donkey child
Without a father or youth

14. Without a city without
Hideouts, without plots of land

15. Invaded by a thousand hoopoes
And it coils without cobras

16. It's enough that his mother
is Rayya and his grandfather is Saba'a

17. And that his uncle's brother-in-law
was Yemen's Yahsub

18. And that his aunt's cousin
was leading Arhab

19. They used to illuminate the darkness
And worship the stars

20. They knew what they built, but did not
know what they had ruined

21. They build high abodes for mice
And plant for insects

22. O weaver of the wreath, say:
Those brows are from absence

23. Or name them planets
That refused to be Arabized

24. Do they have offspring
Of grandeur and glory?

25. Today, the land of Ma'rib
is like its mother, turbulent

26. Led like its mother
By Farasut Abraha's mouse

27. So what's the matter with its yesterday
And its day, how similar

28. It sells the color of its face
To masked faces

29. Tammuz in its eyes
Like an old spinster

30. And the sun on its forehead
Like a distorted painting

31. So O Suhail, do you see
Silly questions?

32. When will this people here awake
A people aware and vigilant?

33. And before it aspires
To something, sees how trivial

34. Then under the glow of dawn
Chooses its untainted faces

35. Moves on and leaves behind
Its frivolous customs

36. It perishes with every atom
Of its idolized land

37. A citizen with a homeland