Ana Yusuf - I am Joseph

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I very much enjoy this one, but it is much better listening to it on the (sub-titled/translated) video than just reading...

Oh father, I am Yusuf

Oh father, my brothers do not love me
They do not want me in their midst

They assault me, cast stones and words at me
They want me to die so they can praise me
They closed the door of your house and left me outside
They expelled me from the field

Oh father, they poisoned my grapes
And they smashed my toys

When the gentle wind played with my hair they were jealous
They rose up against me and against you

What did I deprive them of, oh father?

Butterflies stopped on my shoulder
Wheat bowed towards me
Birds slept on my palms

What have I done, oh father?
Why me?
You named me Yusuf

They threw me into the well and accused the wolf
The wolf is more merciful than my brothers

Oh father! Did I do harm to anyone when I said that

I saw eleven stars and the sun and the moon,
I saw them kneeling before me?