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9th grade Saudi writer
Munirah Al-Mulhim is in the 9th grade at Dammam's Al-Bassam Schools in Saudi Arabia. He first book, Owraq Wardiyah (Pink Petals), has just been published by her school.
How Poor their Minds Are
By Munirah Al-Mulhim
Translated from Arabic by Mohammed Fareed Shinwari
I beg here and there,
I sleep on the sidewalk.
Everyone looks at me with disgust.
Most of them in their air conditiones cars are mocking me:
"Oh son of the streets clean my car!"
How poor their minds are,
They think I am beneath them.
But if they knew that when I am in the streets,
The earth becomes my bed,
And the sky with its stars becomes my cover.
Then, when I look at their palaces I remember my grand bed.
It makes them insignificant.
Because they are not grander than the sky and the earth.
How poor their minds are!
Posted at: 2008-06-12
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