From the texts of "The Slaughtered Days"

Nasir Al-Sheikh

1

You have amazing victories

Your flowing hours,

pointing to their wreckage ..!

2

Your high joyful happiness

is a fleeing shadow,

lowering its treacherous night

over the distant country's paths.

3

Be lonely..

to summarize the herd's cry

rising to the Golgotha..!

4

At the borders of hope

Expectations whip me

and flowers I fear for them the disease of longing

and delayed kisses rust their inhalation

and dull in my throat..

A song mourning a country deeply bleeding.

5

I am the old branch at the end of your perceptions

I light a crying sun, a friend to my spikes.

And I saddle a moon whose faint sadness guides me

to the highest fields.

6

She said: Leave aside the talk about the kiss

and record the pain of the screams

on the altar of freedom!!..