Shahla Latifi

The Soundless Birds


There I was 
on the pedestal, looking down; there was dust swirling
the deep well of the white mosque
mounting the hearts somehow.
Oh, there were so many colourless things.
I remember the soundless birds, 
were they there? 
I may have seen dying jasmins 
all around the open field
filled with cold winter. 
There I was sitting up in the layer of the cloud
, unhappy
walking barefoot in the land, unknown to me. 
Why did I need to go to far places in my head
away from the clutter, 
to many places bursting into my thoughts?!
I see one, two, oh, so many of disfigured faces
the rusty blade of the butcher\'s knife
oh, how I feel sad for the mother lamb. 
Tears are a part of me,
I declared to myself that long ago.
Nobody knew it but my mother.