#suugaanta

Maxaan maanso teeriya,

Every lost syllable tells in my heartbeat,

Every lost line is a scar on my heart.

Sida oogta waaberi iftiimow

He’s aromal, like a flower grown in autumn

You glow like an early gleaming morning

Murtidaadu waa toge!

Taageer hiddaayoo,

Sayidkii ku toosoo,

Taabsii xogtaadoo,

Ku tirow Balaayacas!

Soo toosi Haabiil!

A new age

Of wisdom in poetry, yes, a new

Tradition! Go, now, and wake Sayid -

Give him the news, tell all the great

Poets our language lives again,

And this time written to last in lines

That can't be lost or thrown away.

Waa inaan ku dhistaa afkayga,

Waa inaan ku dhaqdaa afkayga,

Waa inaan ku dhergaa afkayga,

Waa inaan ku dhintaa afkayga.

I must be devoted to Somali

develop through Somali

create within Somali

I must get full of my language

and give myself for my own mother tongue.

Haldhaayaduna cawryaan

Indhaheeda cawsha ah

Mus cideedka midabka ah

The colour of Catiya's skin is

The colour that all women envy.

Safkii Nebiga raacoo

Salaamo uga dhigan taa.

in the pastures of Paradise:

may you be assigned to the Prophet's company,

that's my salaam of parting,

Ninka ilo biyo leh soo arkoo, oomman baan ahaye

I’m the man whose fiancé has been given to another,

I’m the man who sees springs but whose thirst remains unquenched.

Inan timaha biiftoo

Baarkana u tidicdoo

this girl who’s busy with her tresses

braiding them tightly to the tip