وَأَسوَدٍ يَسبَحُ في لُجَّةٍ

لاتَكتِمُ الحَصباءَ غُدرانُها

A black man swimming in the darkness

The pebbles do not conceal his betrayal

كَأَنَّها في شَكلِها مُقلَةٌ

وَذَلِكَ الأَسوَدُ إِنسانُها

As if it, in its form, were an eyelid

And that black man, its pupil