When Poem by Mojtaba Ebrahimian

When all loneliness is pressing fast on your heart
When last and past love bangs at your door all the night
When slowly and silently you walk away from you pain
When with every second passing you remember it again and again

When even thinking of the times of happiness makes you awe
When you suddenly realise how lonely in the wide world you are
When even God cannot give you any solace
When you start to feel all the unknown menace

When loneliness is all your relatives and friends
When despair is the only full entity to fill in the emptiness
When you try to escape and get rid of your torments
When even feeling you’re running away brings you happiness

When pain is gnawing through every particle of your soul
When your inside being is creeping out of its mold
When all the once told fables about life seem bizarre
When all the fantasies in your mind start to fade out

When friends seem distant and far away in their own sphere
When it is just a wild dream to dream of anything pure
When filthyness, mixedness and superficiality pervades the world
When out of the blue comes the mystery beginning to unfold

When you begin to feel where you are you’ve got no reality
When all the beauty, sexual attraction and riches seem a stupid fatnasy
When even the thought of progress seems a stupid vicious circle
When all you do is mock yourself and be happy with your own shelter
While all the world you used to know is collapsing
While the evil spirits rejoice around you and keep dancing
While the brutal, animal time is clicking your life away
While the earth is going its designated fate and way

You, I, he, she, we, they, or it
Do/does not matter, they are all part of one unit
The unit which laughs at your absurdity, at your loss of faith
Then what is our duty to do here in such a conundrum
But to tolerate and laugh back at that unit.