1. Time has passed you by though you did not feel it
You remain you, yesterday has gone and tomorrow has arrived

2. Grant yourself eyes, for there is no one among people with vision
Except that dryness pains their eyes

3. Grant yourself a heart, for there is no man among people
Except that sorrow pains his heart

4. Grant yourself a liver inside its companion
Does it not bear what animosity boils?

5. I am amazed at a woman who is disgraced and does not consider
And at men who dishonor her and do not grow wise

6. Both are a man among people and a woman
With no distinction but that body

7. And all around them is in humiliation like them
All are enslaved, even the river and the land

8. O daughter of Egypt, you have no people to be proud of
No country, no people, no children

9. The eyes of the people of Egypt have strayed and in their blindness
The perversion of souls, and this ignorance and chaos

10. So in the view of the elite you are disreputable
And in the eyes of your peasants, a peg

11. And you are among them in every station
The left zero that completes the number

12. Ignorance, which passed nights with you, resides in your head
And envy resides in your ribs

13. And they do not settle in a house of prosperity
Except that prosperity departs from it

14. So witchcraft, misfortune, and masters - all
Are misery for their people, the likes of which is misery

15. You are not in China where idols stand
And demons have a hand in all affairs

16. By God, if there was any knowledge and education
That this patience and composure would blend with

17. Then when she mocked the daughter brought together
From her Saturday or her Sunday

18. Would I see a man or woman among us
After fading and prolonged humiliation, flare up?

19. O people, if the lion of the forest slept like you
The mouse would disdain being called a lion