On the deportation of the poet Hamza Kashgari back to Saudi Arabia.

Spare the poet, O Law,

for his soul expands

beyond the sources of reason,

as far as truth.

Spare the poet, O Death,

for his heart is the brother of a quasar

that ignites the Universe.

Spare the poet, O Faith,

for his song 

rises like the Sun

and reawakens the eternal in stone.

Roberto Malini
(English translation by Glenys Robinson)