POETRY

Shelter

Persian (Original) · مأوا

چشم‌هایت
اقلیمی ناشناخته
خورشید در شرم طلوع …

شانه می‌زنی
طوفانی از شب
در گیسوانت گم می‌شود

انگشتانم
پرواز پروانه‌هاست
بر پیشانی‌ات …
آنجا که لبخندت
تنهایی را می‌شکند

نامت
ساده‌ترین ذکر لبانم

بمان !
تو را
چون آواز صبح
در گلو
در خون
در جان نشانده‌ام

و از هجومِ جهان
در پناهِ تو
مأوا یافته‌ام …

English

Your eyes
an unknown realm
where the sun rises
in the shyness of its own dawn…

You comb your hair
and a storm of night
loses itself
within your tresses

My fingers
are the flight of butterflies
upon your forehead…
There
where your smile
creates a crack
in loneliness

Your name
the simplest prayer
upon my lips

Stay!
I have planted you
like a dawn song
within my throat
within my blood
within my soul

And from the assault
of the world
in the shelter of you
I have found
my own refuge…

Translated from the Persian by the poet.

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