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Poetry: The Burden of Sisyphus

A Poem from Azerbaijan

Watch the documentary:

The sea otter learns to survive

By holding a stone against its chest.

Bahtiyar Hidayet

Bahtiyar-Hidayet-Sindh-Courier-150x150Bahtiyar Hidayet, born in 1974 in the Gazakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, graduated from university in 1995 and has been working as a history teacher since 1998. Wrote poetry since high school and has 4 poetry books published in Azerbaijan.

The Burden of Sisyphus

Watch the documentary:

The sea otter learns to survive

By holding a stone against its chest.

 But

The real documentary should be made about humans.

There are stones instead of hearts

In millions of chests.

Humans use them

Against each other

In order not to survive.

 

Our hearts have turned into stone

Inside our chests.

Every heart is a burden of Sisyphus.

 

We are still in the Stone Age.

The subconscious of most of us

Is in the Lower Paleolithic,

The conscious mind of some of us

Is in the Upper Paleolithic,

And the rest are in the Middle Paleolithic.

 

A good documentary could be made

About this subject:

People of the Stone Age

In modern clothes —

Homo habilis,

Neanderthal man,

And Homo sapiens —

 

Learn how to survive

From sea otters.

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