Marta Mehrpouyan

On nights like tonight,
so warm... so humid... so dark...
when the wind is so still
that I can hear the wings of fireflies fluttering outside,
...

It rains so hard...
almost as if the dark clouds were crying for something they'd lost,
a constant wall of water reminiscent of something sad or dead
and yet, there is so much life in the water that falls from that sky,
...

Here I am again G-d,
heart in hand and soul naked,
stripped of all that helps me fake it
in this world that you've created.
...

I sit by my window looking through its colored glass into the strength of a storm.
I relish the angry rain that bravely leaves its cloudy home,
admiring the lightning bolts that boldly make the dark sky bright
and the thunder that loyally follows it, always echoing its light.
...

Like a waterfall,
magnificent and powerful,
shimmering in the light of the morning,
surrounded by magical moving carpets of green
...

Time goes on...
but feelings that are supposed to cool off
keep smoldering in his heart.
Nothing calms the burning inside,
...

Always waiting for tomorrow but tomorrow never comes,

so it's today she must live on, but when today comes its gone
...