Poppies Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Poppies

Unlike rest of nature
Mankind must blame
The others for mistakes.

We call some poison,
Many are brainless
And others dangerous
Unless are enslaved
Like cattle and chicken.

And I laugh and cry:
"What the hell is mankind? "

I understand the laws as
Understand the cause and...

I understand the need as
Understand the crimes.

I grew with poppies
For our food and drugs.

In drought and in need
My father used trick
Took a part of our land
That was the wheat and
Sow the little poppy seeds.

They grew, and I watched
My Daddy with sharp knife
Scratched their skins,
Came out white liquid.

After days with bent knife
Gathered that in a bowl
And set bowl in the sun.

I grew with poppies,
Almost lost life to it,
Then was a toddler
And crawled a little…

Britain used opium
As one of the best tools
To poke Iran, china!

They bought the opium juice
Far better than opium,
So, some sat, smoked pipes
To earn food and have life.

Dirty were the buyers,
Simple were smokers.

Later some of medics
Came up with Heroin,
Extracted from…
In the name of drug
Crippled New York
Many of patients died.

I sit and read, recall
And in times laugh, cry

Government of Iran
Not house pet, but a dog
Said yes to command of
Europeans, America
to ban "Taryak, " "Khashkhash, "
which had been in Iran
a part of daily life
for ages, old native…

If I had shah's power
I would say:
"My friends…"
to US and London,
"…poppy is not danger,
Worthless is your science
And kind of business
That follows your science,
Change your way,
Do not blame! "

And I would follow the
Parents and ancestors…

Writing these I picture
The board and my father
And the sheets smeared,
And the rolls in paper.