An Elegy for My Motherland Iran – A Poem by Mehran Sirani
Mehran Sirani is a renowned poet from Iran. He is working at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric).
An Elegy for My Motherland Iran
Mehran Sirani
Cry out my motherland
That instead of high-flying eagles
The ugly vultures have built the nest
On the top of your centuries old wisdom tree
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Cry out my motherland
That instead of savior lions
The disgusting roar of dirty hyenas has resonated
Deep inside your centuries old glorious mountain
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Cry out my motherland
That instead of mighty thunderbolt
The honest fireflies have desperately tried to illuminate
Your centuries old eclipse with their poor flashlights
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Cry out my motherland
That instead of the unique sun
The mass sunflowers have naively turned their faces to every spark
In the middle of your centuries old total darkness
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Cry out my motherland
That instead of wise harvest
The endless intellectual famine has dried the roots of every plant
Deep inside your centuries old enlightenment plain
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Cry out my motherland
For those barren swallows
That would mournfully leave your gloomy sky
Hoping in vain to taste the free flight in an earthly Aden
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Cry out my motherland
For those unborn swallows
That will pay an eternal heavy price
For our historical neglect and failure
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Cry out my motherland
For your painful destiny
For your ominous future
For your cold-blooded history
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Source: Poem Hunter
