مِن الأَحيان للإنكيس حُمرَهْ

يُقابلها البَياض بِغَير نُصرَهْ

From moments of gloom, depression has its redness

Met by whiteness with no triumph

وَداخل نصرة الرايات قامَت

عَلى عَتَبات جودلة بكرّه

And inside the triumph of banners stood

On the thresholds of Godela at dawn

نقي الخَد في الأحشاء قَبضٌ

لَهُ مِن داخل وَعَلَيهِ كَسرَه

Pure of cheek in the viscera a fist

Inside it and over it - his loss

وَخارج قَبضه جَمعٌ لعقل

عَلَيهِ الاجتِماع طَريق حَسرَه

And outside his fist a gathering of reason

Upon it the gathering a way of regret