God’s Money

Translated by Soheil Najm

On Al-Hamra’a street

The religious man passes with his long rosary

The pauper passes with his barefoot dreams

The politician passes, mined with money

The intellectual passes, lost in thoughts.

Everyone passes in a rush, and pays no mind

To the blind beggar.

Only the rain is dropping in his palm,

To God outstretched.

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Poems from "Slightly Quarrelsome Texts"

Published in “Atlanta Review – Iraq” by Poetry Atlanta, Inc.

Volume XIII, Issue number 2, Spring/Summer 2007, USA