O Baghdad night, do you learn about my yearnings

Parting such a line of tears in my eye corners

Yearning, crying this soul o my inspirer

Ah when should we meet, o bartender's wine

So, the cup lost in travels since long time

And wine came to sell in a thieves' shop

This, the flame of vision, my soliloquy

Vented by soul in circles of hymns

A character in the universes I spread

Baghdad… Baghdad my covenant the heartbeat

Baghdad my love, my deep secret

But words unfold in my conducts

My heart longs to that light in skyline

Where the meeting, here come the moons into my skylines

Am affected by passion and grieves, o my hope

Had it not been for you, lovers would not been left a hope

Baghdad, your eyes my poems' rhyme

My eyes ever long for Al Zora' flowers

Baghdad I adore you, my person has inscribed on hillock

Grieving for a love that became a sheet of papers

The flute reminded "Khader Elias" of may pain

O sadness, Baghdad in my mind and my heart

I walk while I see my longing on the route driving me

One neighborhood after another and from one market to others

In the river's street I walk, o my heart desire

And love has shown up in my silence and bowing

I dated you while passion in heart I bear  

And longing has shaken a sentiment in burning

On the riverside am waiting near the water

Love legend near my companion waves

Source: Iraqi Cultural Net