Paralysis in thoughts
Tremble in drowsiness
And the morning on the verge
Of the fission
Like a glittering grain
Between two mountains
The earth is not capable of embracing it
Sends its meteors from time to time
Like appetizers before the main meal
In a five stars hotel.
The trees tremble
Barefoot
Their blood flows from their heart- the earth -
To climb its face - the branches –
And dye it in red color
Fear or shame
Like the girls’ cheeks that
Dangle like apples
Their bodies tremble
From the praise of the boys that’s
Dipped by appetite.
I dry my sweat
Moans kill me
Knouts whip me
And a languid moan far away
A miserable autumn moan
Climbs my lung
Ohhhhhh
From an unmerciful dawn
The shadow moans
And the forest’s night dissolves,
Crawling…….
Like a snake frightened the morning’s eyes
The sky reveal to its vespers
The secrets of the dawn narrations
O this latent secret in myself
Slow down
If my country’s imagination got in motion
And appeared
I become frightened like a sunflower
O my sky’s sea don’t go down
The waves are violent this season
A biting winter
 I know .......
The wind is roaring and storming
And the coming flood is frightful
Or the bewitch coming is more beautiful
I don’t know
It will come with rainbows
The tailored black days
By the human's yellow teeth
Like my intestine by its yellow old age
Like dunes of the sand in forgotten desert
But ….
To where the way with my pain
You are the absentee about me and the present
is this mirage or sea?
for the sea worlds as I know
Ships
And fish
Swim in its intestines the adorers of God
Praise the God whatever in the sky
The sea is life
Not illusion
And the dunes of sand
Expatriates and blood
From Baghdad
To Raffha *
Till the grave

* Raffha : city in Saudi Arabia

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 Written and Translated by: Said Alwaely
 Detroit 03 / 25 / 2004