halā 'akhadhtu lihadha l-yawmu 'ahbathu
    min qabli 'an tusbih l'ashwaqa ashjana



lahafi 'alayka qadaytu l-'umra muqtahiman
    fi l-wasli naran wafi l'hijarana mirana.

– 'Ismaiel Sabri






(Would you have taken for this day that you fear/ from before the yearnings became griefs//I lament, for you have spent your lifetime storming/ in connection of fire and in departing fires.)