1. I am union and separation
I am command and creation

2. I am high and low
I am joining and parting

3. I am good and evil
I am lies and truth

4. I am knowledge and ignorance
Certitude, even obliteration

5. I am the sun, and for the sun,
I am west and east

6. My time boasts of me
And Damascus is exalted through me

7. And over the people of my time
My secret knocks, all of them

8. Indeed my truth is falsehood, but
My falsehood to me is truth

9. And contemplate that I am lightning
From that unseen light

10. And for my enviers, from me
Always killing and burning

11. And I am the sword that cannot
Be sheathed except to rend

12. Let the frogs of our land croak
In the stagnant water

13. And the dogs of the alley, whom
The lion made restless, whine

14. So they consoled themselves with the barking
Of others not worthy

15. And in summary, nothing exists
Except the truth, the obliterator