{"id":43758,"date":"2016-11-26T02:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T02:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.85.16.36\/66-5-en\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T22:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T22:01:18","slug":"66-5-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/66-5-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen years later &#8211; a poem by Reza Ekvanian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAutumn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Yellow jacket hunter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In the presence of women, my land flourishes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The most sorrowful yellow is the color of autumn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Nasrin says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>If still, the trees in the neighbor&#8217;s yard were green.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>These days were becoming forty years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Waiting for spring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>They were giving their body to the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>They were sitting in the water&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Narges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>He catches sight of his children and asks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>How old are my children?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>He\/she cannot smile and asks with a smile:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>What year is it sixteen years from now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>I say imagine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In a short moment of breathing,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Imagine happiness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Hold your children in your dreams..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>No one can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Take the imagination from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>When you don&#8217;t like it,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Return to a life in captivity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Imagine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Imagine the old four-legged ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>How they slip under the feet of death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And nobody knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>How many years is this year&#8217;s autumn?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And the following year&#8217;s autumn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Which one is it and which one is not!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>To those who have been busy withering away for years like Mary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And today, Naserineh is busy picking flowers, imagine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nToday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The sound of a nightingale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The scent of women is my homeland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The cry of youth is Fatemeh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&#8220;That grows old in captivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>It is spread in her heart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>We.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>With pictures of beautiful flowers in our gardens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>We will go to the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And autumn,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>This woman is wearing yellow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Happiness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Opposite of always.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>It will take us to our homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn. Yellow jacket hunter. In the presence of women, my land flourishes. The most sorrowful yellow is the color of autumn. Nasrin says: If still, the trees in the neighbor&#8217;s yard were green. These days were becoming forty years old. Waiting for spring. They were giving their body to the water. 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