{"id":688,"date":"2022-11-11T19:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/?p=688"},"modified":"2022-11-11T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:35:48","slug":"my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"My daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is braiding her hair in the sunshine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and invites me slowly, from the shade to the glare of light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a rainbow on the far end of the horizon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">left from the remains of the rain round the rays of the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green, white and red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A lioness sitting, waiting to roar the hope..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The carcass of a turbaned body,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">dead before the sun rose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and burnt the bones to make ashes to ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The turban opens up and catches fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashes to ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone from among the crowd cries your name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was the last syllable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope? Desire? Blue sky? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I called you as you were taken away wrapped in the black smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The turbaned carcass stole and hid your name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My Hope. My Desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your name jumped from the ashes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like the murmur of a stream, in a Spring day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your name is spoken in a thousand languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your combed hair carries the light taken from the rays of sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are the one in a thousand colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are the name in a thousand languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are the girl waiting at the edge of time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be sang and danced round thousand squares, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with thousand tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You, who sat witness to the ruins of your land,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and your tongue and the books which printed your name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your name will be carved over the rainbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You, the spark in the darkness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and the smile of hope,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mahsa, Nika, etc, etc, etc,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E3D75B1F-FD3B-47DD-B076-0AF2D14ACEB9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-692\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E3D75B1F-FD3B-47DD-B076-0AF2D14ACEB9.jpeg 576w, http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E3D75B1F-FD3B-47DD-B076-0AF2D14ACEB9-169x300.jpeg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is braiding her hair in the sunshine, and invites me slowly, from the shade to the glare of light. 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