Baghdad, my sweetheart's name o you who ask me about her…
She parted with me and no more seen, so my eyes longed for her…
I longed to see her gateway, palms, sky, soil and people in which they live…
Out of my love and longing for her I started to see her in my dreams, see her face before me, and yesterday I saw her and wished I had not, I saw her crying I saw a black cloud in her sky I wandered in her roads but no children were playing in sight…
No young people were walking…
No old men sitting in streets…
No smile seen, no people celebrating a wedding
Everything beautiful thing disappeared, I saw indescribable things for their ugliness, I couldn't write them for their unsightliness, people who aggrieve…
People who kill… and others die…
Ah Baghdad, o my heart I cry for you… nothing remained therein but my beloved people… I rushed to see my beloved people and wipe tears from the eyes…
I reached the house of my beloved people knocked the door nobody answered!! I knocked heavily on the door and shouted where my beloved people are? Where my family and friends are? I screamed asking the house where your dwellers have gone to?...
He said: your beloved people abandoned me and left nothing to me but silence …
Why have left me my beloved people? Why deserted Baghdad? As I am in your absence a stranger in my homeland and my sweetheart named Baghdad … you who ask about the name of my sweetheart … Baghdad she is Baghdad, my sweetheart's name
Baghdad, my sweetheart's name o you who ask me about her…
She parted with me and no more seen, so my eyes longed for her…
I longed to see her gateway, palms, sky, soil and people in which they live…
Out of my love and longing for her I started to see her in my dreams, see her face before me, and yesterday I saw her and wished I had not, I saw her crying I saw a black cloud in her sky I wandered in her roads but no children were playing in sight…
No young people were walking…
No old men sitting in streets…
No smile seen, no people celebrating a wedding
Everything beautiful thing disappeared, I saw indescribable things for their ugliness, I couldn't write them for their unsightliness, people who aggrieve…
People who kill… and others die…
Ah Baghdad, o my heart I cry for you… nothing remained therein but my beloved people… I rushed to see my beloved people and wipe tears from the eyes…
I reached the house of my beloved people knocked the door nobody answered!! I knocked heavily on the door and shouted where my beloved people are? Where my family and friends are? I screamed asking the house where your dwellers have gone to?...
He said: your beloved people abandoned me and left nothing to me but silence …
Why have left me my beloved people? Why deserted Baghdad? As I am in your absence a stranger in my homeland and my sweetheart named Baghdad … you who ask about the name of my sweetheart … Baghdad she is
