The great Yemeni poet Abdullah Al-Bardouni looked with insight at the tragic reality of his country across generations past and future. He wrote a poem considered among the most honest, depicting the Eid and its conditions. He began it with: “They say, ‘You came, so what happened? What was revealed and what happened?’ You see songs as the new dawn, so what useful new thing do you see? The houses, the prisons, the graves increase/So has the earth’s surface increased by an inch?”