Monk Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Monk

Catherine gave order: "Build me an Hermitage."
-she had a big design and of course not as monks…
-she was not religious…neither was Jesuit and nor was Orthodox…
-her list of lovers says how many she possessed…

I love to do the same…
-to seclude, me, myself
-I and me; mind to chest
-am tired, too tired
-am tired of greed
-am tired of blind
-am tired of belly
-am tired, and tired, and tired
-of the games based on lies…
-politics; such as what says White House
-of the wealth killing poor, innocents
-yet reversing the fact to read it love and care…
-the same old story, by many empires
-the last and in our time, is U. S…

I am not ostrich
-neither am a giraffe
-nor match the coyote
-nor the fox or seagull,
-I am a night-owl and...
-fly as do the bats
-blind but with radar

Let me go…go…go…go…
-so shut up, don't preach
-doors on me must be sealed
-to worldly, and greed
-best method is hermit
-avoiding to do harm
-done I am with it all
-dirty is politics
-pile of lies and the shit
-please search you may find
-the truth of rebels,
-like Che and Bin Laden;
-"Rise and fall of the Reich", and the Sheikh's BCCI!