Salah El Ouadie : You

1.
You who are on the verge of loving
Spare a corner of your heart
For the hatred of badness

2.
You who are on the verge of hating
Spare a corner of your heart
For goodness

3.
You who are on the verge of anger
Spare a corner of your heart
For compassion

4.
You who are on the verge of traveling
Spare a corner of your heart
For memory

5.
You who are on the verge of listening
Spare a corner of your heart
For Silence

6.
You who are writing
Spare a few lines of your pen
For mind forgiveness

7.
You who give birth
Remember
The filling of your womb
With the secrets of the universe

8.
You who offer
Your warm breast
To the crying infant in your arms
Spare some of your abundant tenderness
For the homeless child in the street

9.
You who contemplate space
Cast a glance on us
As you pass
We are homeless children

10.
You who are on the verge of  leaving
Spare a -flash of your consciousness
For the ones who are saying farewell

Translated from Arabic by Hafsa Bekri Lamrani