1. Has the time not come for al-Milhi to unfurl affection

    And fold away bitter harshness, abandonment, and rejection?

  2. Does he grow angry because I adorned Ibn Hashim’s hand

    With a bracelet of invective that gnaws at the heart, not the wrist?

  3. And I never thought Iraq’s oft-slapped man would ask me

    For even slight blame of men like him, or praise.

  4. Whenever Abu al-Ward strikes at him with his palm,

    I take his nape for a garden sprouting roses.

  5. Clouds of swinging palms pour upon the back of his head,

    Drenching it with downpours and growing wet with his blood.

Sol 6.1