أَصبَحتُ أَذكُر أَرحاماً آصِرَةً

أَصبَحتُ أَذكُر أَرحاماً آصِرَةً

بُدِّلتُ مِنها هُوِيَّ الرِيحِ بِالقَصَبِ

بُدِّلتُ مِنها هُوِيَّ الرِيحِ بِالقَصَبِ

I now recall close bonds of kinship;

I begin to remember close wombs

I have come to remember binding ties of blood,

In their place, I have been given the wind’s rushing sound through the reeds.

From which I was transformed by the identity of the wind in the reed

Replaced, for me, by the whistling of wind through the reeds.