A Thanksgiving Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

A Thanksgiving

Today is ‘Thanksgiving'
-not Yankees'
-but heart's for unity
-borderless
-far from politics.

I have guests
-did shopping on the way
-met Leila inside the bakery
-someone's wife, a mother
-but mostly, human.

Then in ‘North Restaurant'
-saw people of Iraq
-who are of my blood
-but parted by anthem
-which is wall…

For eight years we held guns
-killed, were killed, in the war
-thanks to some criminal
-member of KKK; an actor
-a White House resident
-a US president named Reagan.

Being an extrovert
-I chatted with them all
-we spoke heart to heart
-to break barriers, any wall.

Our server, a woman of Iran
-had lived in Venezuela…

Damn are walls; any kind
-Israel's, Donald Trump's!

Our need is too simple
-only love, that is all.