On Every Other Line Poem by MOHAMMAD SKATI

I am waiting someone or something To change my whole life happily, but Instead I find nothing other than written words Of sufferings and pains On every other line of my whole page of life Simply because life has done its work towards me, This life is so cruel and Is so hard on me and on my page, My whole page of my life is engraved and every other line There are words of pains and words of sufferings, This is my page of life Which I encounter everyday, I avoid pains and sufferings, but They chase me painfully, Avoidance is impossible because of My page of life, Everyone has a different page in life, but My page is very different Simply because it is a page of Care, distress, pains, and sufferings, My fate - I can not avoid it - prevails With my sufferings that are infinite, If people go this way, then I have to go the opposite way automatically, My pains and my sufferings are infinite Because of my overstuffed pages of pains and torture, Alone accompanied with care and distress Anywhere I go, On every other line, there is a sign of sufferings and of pains, Life's cruelty beats all that is good in it, so We live in it dead while we're alive and We live in it alive while we're dead.