1. Baghdad we came complaining so hear my complaint
Pour us comfort in two glasses and come closer

2. Baghdad we came as its riverbanks are barren
And the water around you is a chain of gold

3. So who do we blame if we excuse you from blame
While in us are wounds that have not yet healed

4. Before you is glory and history so ignite
A fire of love not a fire of firewood

5. Before you is glory and history so emerge
A sun like your era or if you wish then argue

6. From where do I start or from where is my end
The beginning suffers from the grip of wonder

7. Give my eyes from your eyes an ignited
Radiance of light or an unveiling of the hidden

8. Give a vein so in the artery there is room
To it listens so the most beautiful line of prose

9. Poetry stopped working until it almost embarrassed me
And my sea of sorrows almost betrayed me

10. A gang of grudges wrongly accuse you today
I pardon more than the betrayal and lies

11. They do not accept you as a warm chest to a brother
Nor as a good lineage’s honest sweat

12. They distort history through you so beware
Of innocence and be cautious of tribulation

13. They lose arts from you we know
Poetry and prose and literature of literature

14. As if Baghdad is no more than anguish
And pleasure became after dates and raisins

15. As if Baghdad is glories and an epic
Of hatred for Islam and Arabs

16. The honesty of love is that I gift you from my literature
A letter of blame in a cup of complaint

17. And if I complain to you when embracing grew difficult
And a union with you without cause grew difficult

18. You killed in us a glimmer, increasing the broken
Who wrangles dawn on the crutch of fatigue

19. You wasted a path to the farthest intentionally
So hatred drove you to vendettas like sin

20. And your conquest was glory before Andalusia
The conquest changed O dispossessed of rage