Homeland Poem by Fatima Nusairat

Oh homeland
Which pallor infects your face!
Is it poisons you swallow
Or the darkness of death? !
Ah my homeland:
My mouth - your mouth full of sand,
My dress - your dress spotted with sweat,
And mice bite my dreams and yours!
Oh homeland
As tale of fragrant you are!
And the wind - as wolves
Eating away your body silk
Till bleeds jasmine.

Oh homeland
Do not ask us for all this death
Do not ask!
Death is wolf, and the den in us.

Ah my homeland
All the winds are transient
Only you remain!