Let Us Love Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Let us love

Once I read of the words, Arabic
-felt a shock
-I confessed "Is great language! "

That, of course, is because
-I try to remain logical, open-eyed

What is wrong to confess?
- "I have or I know less! "

We cannot stick to:
- "I, me, I, us, we, us"

This to me is a life
-in a cell and or jar
-limited with no light

Not joining the trend makes a cage
-keeps me far, a sort of different, isolate
-from much of the things and others
-but keeping honesty can also satisfy

If Arabs came and killed my people
-that they did
-if they hurt, destroyed my culture
-that they did
-if damaged my old faith
-that they did
-it should not blind me to greats

What exists is a fact, must accept
-the Arab language being rich
-with nature; where lived in
-with dates and deserts and oasis
-is a fact that must be preserved

If Arab language or other idioms
-indigenous, anywhere do not talk
-of robots, and rockets, computers
-shall not mean, "Ignore them"
-this is loss to us all…

When reading a poem; molasses
-coming of the sugar left over
-took me to making Kashk,
-from milk to yoghurt, exactly similar
-the boil and left over

Each must have benefits
-must eat them! And why not
-learning more about them?

When read of Athena
-as girl's name in Iran
-I thought of history
-the Persia and Greece

She was raped and murdered,
-her body was dropped in barrel
-crimes are almost same everywhere
-and causes?

Let's break barriers
-no need of jar or cage
-we are all families, siblings
-what is wall between us?

We must and do love them
-let Greeks love us too

If there is a valley between us
-it is fault of "ism"
-and of the dirty "ern"
-the "Eastern" and "Western"

Hell, to all divisions, classes
-let us love…love…love…love

When I read of the knife in
-subway in city of the "Rey"
-I recalled when was child
-brothers had a fight in train
-saw one knife the other
-saw the knifed opening like jacket.