A Conversation of a Stone by ABDUL WAHAB AL-BAYATI
A stone said to another:
I am not happy in this naked fence
My place is in the palace of the sultan.
The other said:
You are sentenced to death
Whether you are here or in the sultan’s palace
Tomorrow this palace will be destroyed
As well as this fence
By an order from the sultan’s men
To repeat their game from the beginning
And to exchange their masks.
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