PERSIAN - HAJIPOUR, Shervin

HAJIPOUR, Shervin

Baraye/For

For the freedom of dancing in the streets

For the moment of fear for kissing

For my sister, your sister, our sisters

For changing the corroded brains

For the embarrassment due to empty pockets

For the yearning for a normal life

For the dreams of the dumpster diving kids

For this autocratic economy

For this polluted air

For Vali-‘asr and its withered trees

For Piruz and his imminent extinction

For the forbidden innocent dogs

For the non-stop cryings

For the dream of reminiscing this moment in history

For a laughing face

For the students, For the future

For this mandatory paradise

For the imprisoned intellects

For the Afghan children

For all these unrepeated wherefores

For all these empty promises

For the weight of the wreckage of chaffy houses

For the sensation of unwinding

For the sun after a long night

For the psychotic meds and insomnia

For men, fatherland, prosperity

For the sake of the girls wishing they were born a boy

For women, life, freedom

For freedom

Iranam

پوتینِ رو گلوم

طنابِ دور گردنم

جا ترکه روی پام

ولی باز حرف می‌زنم

زخم بازمو محکم فشار بده

تو خسته میشی و من جا نمی‌زنم

زانومه روی خاک مرگم مسلمه

این شعر آخری تنها سلاحمه

بازم ازم بگیر خاکم رو خو

حتی جنازمم حرفش رو میزنه …

چون من ایرانم !

من ایرانم

…..

I'm Iran

The boot on my throat

The rope around my neck

The mark of the foot whipping rod on my feet

But I still cry for my rights

Press my open wound hard

You may get tired, but I will not

I am on my knees

I will die for sure

This last song of mine is my only gun

Take my land, my house from me again

Even my corpse will cry for its rights…

Because I am Iran!

I'm Iran