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Partaw Naderi

Earth
 

The earth opens her warm arms

to embrace me

The earth is my mother

She understands the sorrow

of my wandering

 

My wandering

is an old crow

that conquers

the very top of an aspen

a thousand times a day

 

Perhaps life is a crow

that each dawn

dips its blackened beak

in the holy well of the sun

 

Perhaps life is a crow

that takes flight with Satan’s wings

 

Perhaps life is Satan himself

awakening a wicked man to murder

 

Perhaps life is the grief-stricken earth

who has opened up her bloodied arms to me

 

And here I give thanks

on the brink of ‘victory’

Peshawar, Pakistan
July, 2002

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