R.Rakhshani
Thread-like Remembrances
From a long Persian poem called “Faalgoosh”
A breath of song
An ancient song, submitting me
To the thread-like remembrances
In my mind’s attic
My state has scattered my decomposed remembrances…..
How many times have I loved?
When was it that I plucked on my path my own flowers?
Do I walk with a lantern?
Or in the moonlight?
Am I the water seeping in the path of darkness?
With the distant glance of my friends, do I submit my existence…
To the beloved gazes?
Neither from the lassitude’s corner,
Nor just against the narrowness, the intolerance,
Why do I stand up?
Why liberate myself?
Why do I flee my confusion?
I should read a couple of pages, which know better than I,
The pleasure of the morning, in those eyes, more open than the flowers.
A mouthful of songs, a decomposed remembrance, a withered flower
Languid and crumpled, am I.
At the bottom of this chair, my crumple-ness
Wants to open,
to shine,
to fly…..
I should stand up
I should do something
I must…..
bring in the light.