ياعامِ لَم أَعرِفكَ تَنكِرُ سُنَّةً

بَعدَ الَّذينَ تَتابَعوا بِالمَرصَدِ

O year, why do I not recognize you rejecting the tradition

After those who followed one another in succession?

لَو عايَنَتكَ كُماتُنا بِطُوالَةٍ

بِالحَزوَرِيَّةِ أَو بِلابَةِ ضَرغَدِ

If our blind ones had seen you in endurance

In al-Hazuriyyah or in the plain of Dharghad,

لَثَوَيتَ في قِدٍّ هُنالِكَ موثَقاً

في القَومِ أَو لَثَوَيتَ غَيرَ مُوَسَّدِ

You would have lain bound there with chains

Among the people, or you would have lain with no pillow.