Boats Poem by Afrooz Jafarinoor

Once again today, the boats will float
Not on water, on hands they will float!
They are all three- colored
They are all equal- size
Green and white and red
Our eyes with tears red.

Where are the boatmen
What happened to the young men?

The boats will ride light
As they have no weight!
The weight of soil and bone
And that after so long
Is nothing, but instead,
What hearts have broken for years!
What eyes, in vain, at doors have stared!

Once again the boats today
Once again tears and sighs today.

What shall we do but look
On this flood of black?