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Subject: another birth
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 21:32:01 EST
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 Excerpts from "Another Birth"
             

 All my existence is a dark verse
 which repeating you in itself will take you
 to the dawn of eternal blossoming and growth
 i have sighed to you in this verse, ah,
 in this verse i have grafted you
 to tree and water and fire
             
 Ah...
 this is my lot
 this is my lot
 My lot
 is a sky which the hanging of a curtain steals from me
 My lot is descending an abandoned stair
 to find something in decay and exile
 My lot is a grief-stricken walk in the garden of memories
 and surrendering my soul in the sadness of a voice
    that says to me:
 "I love
 your hands"
                     
 I plant my hands in the garden
 I will grow green, I know, I know
 and in the hollows of my ink-stained fingers
 swallows will lay eggs
               
 I
 know a sad little fairy
 who takes abode in the ocean
 and plays her heart on a wood-tipped flute
 softly,softly
 a sad little fairy
 who dies from a single kiss at night
 and will be born with a single kiss at dawn
                       
 * poem by Forugh Farrokhzad
 * shared by Farzin Mokhtarian