Vindictive Gravity

soheil khodaparasti

We are all fables and myths.

How many times has Sisyphus grown weary?

 

We shoulder the burden of the contempt of the contemptible

from morning till night, till morning

in waking and in sleep,

so skillfully—yet vindictively—

that we know by heart

the weight of every stone

 

 

گرانشِ کینه‌توز

 

همه فسانه‌ایم و اسطوره
سیزیف سیری چند؟

 

بارِ بی‌مهریِ بی‌مقداران را
 از صبح تا شب، تا صبح
در بیداری و خواب
چنان ماهرانه اما کینه‌توزانه
به دوش می‌کشیم
که جرمِ هر سنگی را از حفظیم

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  • sorenbarrett

    Nicely using mythology as a building block that stone a representation of earthly burden is rolled up that hill only to roll back again the job never complete. A lovely write a metaphor within a metaphor and a fave



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