What further wishes and desires
do you seek from life
Have you been offered
to see all your dreams come true
And the mighty hands were
willing to satisfy you
But you love to suffer
like the pious’ love for adhān.

From the poem "Fī al-Sijn", lines 1– 4, as quoted in Khaleel, A.F. (2016). Suffering and Techniques of Poetic Resistance: Mohammed Mahdi al-Jawahiri's "In Jail" and W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts". Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies 5(1), 95-120. dx.doi.org.