The Love Of Year 2020- by: Mahnaz Badihian
The Love Of Year 2020
I feel I have a Poet lover
Who knows all of my untold poems
When I gave him my last poem
He had read it years ago
My lover is the most important poet I know
He has hundreds of books
Hundreds of amorous and philosophical thoughts
With his poetic sense
Through my dress he sees me Naked
Both my body and my soul
And shows those images in his poems
He steps into my ventricles
involuntarily I hear his steps
In the expansion of my lungs
My lover does not look like anyone or anything
But I know him well
I have not seen him in this town or
In this house
But he is with me every second
I found him many years ago
When I was in love for no reason
Or I needed to be in love
I found him after I woke from a dream
And felt I was crowded
Inside me
In my thoughts
On my skin
Because his imaginary presence suddenly
Took me out of my
And thinking of him
Gave away my loneliness, and a sense
Of belonging happiness and peace
yesterday when the grieving for my mother
Was a small sword poking the vision in my eyes
It did not take long before my lover
Polished my thoughts
And drank my tears
Because he’s in love with me
My lover is not a woman
Is not a man, he has no traits of my
Son or my daughter
Definitely he is not like any one
But surprisingly in my thoughts
He plays everyone’s role
And he plays his role as a lover the best
He promised me before I die
One day he will appear
In front of my eyes
In my room
In my house
In my city
I believe all he says
I swear to him
That he is everywhere
Always.
I do not see any shadows around me!
I feel I have a Poet lover
Who knows all of my untold poems
When I gave him my last poem
He had read it years ago
My lover is the most important poet I know
He has hundreds of books
Hundreds of amorous and philosophical thoughts
With his poetic sense
Through my dress he sees me Naked
Both my body and my soul
And shows those images in his poems
He steps into my ventricles
involuntarily I hear his steps
In the expansion of my lungs
My lover does not look like anyone or anything
But I know him well
I have not seen him in this town or
In this house
But he is with me every second
I found him many years ago
When I was in love for no reason
Or I needed to be in love
I found him after I woke from a dream
And felt I was crowded
Inside me
In my thoughts
On my skin
Because his imaginary presence suddenly
Took me out of my
And thinking of him
Gave away my loneliness, and a sense
Of belonging happiness and peace
yesterday when the grieving for my mother
Was a small sword poking the vision in my eyes
It did not take long before my lover
Polished my thoughts
And drank my tears
Because he’s in love with me
My lover is not a woman
Is not a man, he has no traits of my
Son or my daughter
Definitely he is not like any one
But surprisingly in my thoughts
He plays everyone’s role
And he plays his role as a lover the best
He promised me before I die
One day he will appear
In front of my eyes
In my room
In my house
In my city
I believe all he says
I swear to him
That he is everywhere
Always.
I do not see any shadows around me!