No entry
An invisible sign declared:
-"No entry! "
It was for the mirrors so
-no one knew of his
-or her own look
Faces were miserable
-as were the heads
-and the hands
-and fingers
-and legs
Unwritten was in the abandoned
-faces and the eyes a slogan:
"Ignored we are
-powerlessly segregated
-and blindly imprisoned! "
The slogan lingered in the leper colony
-as it did in the leper island of Peru
-in faces and bodies…
That is what Forough filmed
-to become Forough
And Ernesto Guevara observed
-to become El Che
They could read the question
-a single simple question:
-"Where is justice? "
The "No Entry" sign landed
-in the eyes of minds
-of the poet and the revolutionary
-who cared
And…
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem