Hezbollah It is absurd to close your eyes and pretend that the Baháís have never been slaughtered or forced to convert to Islam, as if the executions of political prisoners or the Kurds were just part of a game, an unwritten law in a lawless land. Extended customs, mute prayers, grave to grave, Tehran cemeteries black from the flesh of the youth and on the faces of the mothers lay chipped beliefs and spreading tears. The News shows the Godzilla regime -mourning over the tassels of demolished homes of the homeless in a country not even close to my land- sits on tinplates of power and announces another castration. This perhaps is a blessing from God that when there is a Friday Prayer in Tehran, we still cry over the Arab-Israeli War. Sheema Kalbasi, 2004 In 2012, LGen the Hon. Roméo Dallaire, Senator from Quebec, Canada, closed his speech on the situation in Iran with sections from this poem. A winner of Harvest International, the poem has also been anthologized and published amongst others in The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles, The Atlanta Review, IRAN issue, and Iranian and Diasporic Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Study by Dr. Daniel Grassian.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:32:09 +0000
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