By The Names Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

By the names

Hand chubby
-fingers short
-nails polished
-polish worn
-her palm is
-facing up
-and in it
-sits snow
-blue eyes
-watch and talk
-with melting
-white matter

Snow talks:
-yes we are all the same
-ice, clouds and the rain

Then a gap
-and silence
-sort of sigh

And the voice
-we are torn
-torn apart
-by the names
-by the lines
-broken all of us
-fell to knees
-with claims
-ignorance
-selfishness
-many needs
-beneath what

Breezed in beating heart
-is imposed not by us
-by others
-drilled deep in ears
-via that into minds
-in my core and our roots
-in kernel…