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Partaw Naderi

The Idol-Breaker’s Calendar

The spring is dead and a flock of black vultures

have laid on the sun’s bloody seat

a feast from the moon’s skull and bones of stars.

The spring is dead and nobody measures life and light

with the sun’s breaths.

And nobody knows that the sun in my land

has grown several centuries old

in three hundred sixty-five days.

Spring is dead and nobody knows

who from the devil party fired the first bullet

during the sun’s execution rite.

Spring is dead and the ashamed mourning multitudes

in the blue seclusion of Nirvana

heard only the sound of a blast

that blew apart the history’s millennia-old mind.

The spring was dead when the “Islamic Gateway”

was auctioning pieces of our torn body

at the crossroads of conspiracy

at the crossroads of the “Idol-Breaker’s Calendar”

The centuries-old dead bodies

died several thousand times in old graveyards

And the centuries-old dead bodies

died of shame in old graveyards and

died several thousand times over

When the “Islamic Gateway” on

the broken faces of Kabul walls:

inscribed in bold-faced letters:

Congratulations on the Victory

 

 

April 2001

Peshawar

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