Night Prayers 

Translated by Soheil Najm

You see your God only

In blades and blood.

I see Him

In a word,

In a song,

In the deep blue of her eyes,

And in the sea….

You, whose life passes by so fast

Spend all your time

Disputing of god and Satan,

And can’t spare a single moment

To understand

The heart of your fellow man….

My God

Is One.

He is neither a Catholic,

Nor a Protestant,

Neither a Sunni

Nor a Shia’a

Those who divide Him up,

Who interpret Him,

Who fabricate His sayings,

Who classify Him

According to their faiths,

Their demands,

Their constitutions

And their armies-

They are the ones who deny

The truth of God.

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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