Poet: Leila Sadeghi
Translator: Prof. Farzad Sharifian
Deeply I oppose
to the water that you swallow, the one that flows
Swim! Dance!
Why don’t you struggle?
My words juggle
within your throat
A gold fish has fallen into my mind, it floats
A wisp, wisp, whisper of ‘water’, ‘water’
I feel alone
When you carve half of the loaf
You starve the other half of the soul
A door gets closed,
And a dove gets caged in my heart trove.
And the moment I shout
A carcass of words is swallowed with water in my mouth
Puff! Puff! It’s cold inside
And it shows I deeply oppose
Why your coming over to me leaves me from my other side
The moment my friend, I wisp, wisp, whisper …
Swim! Dance! Why don’t you struggle?
The moment I juggle,
the moment I am strangling from my end, bubbles, bubbles, ….