The Song of Life
Part I
(Free Verse)

Av Sabri Yousef
Translator SAlmaan Kureemun
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To the memory of the innovative poet
Father Dr. Yousef Said

Time has lost its whiteness
mountains have lost their loftiness
men have lost their sublimity... their words
roses have lost their fragrance...
nights have lost their darkness
nightingales have lost their singing
waters have lost their coldness
winds have lost their wavy breezes
beauty has lost its splendor
knowledge has lost the joy of edification
mankind has lost his traits!
An unfathomable twistedness...
a tumbling into the dens of wolves
a permeating bitterness throughout the universe
a game fit for the Stone Age