دنیا چیزی نیست
دنیا چیزی نیست
جز نمایشی
شیرها از حلقه های آتش عبور می کنند
بعضی سرها از حلقه ی طناب
و انگشت من از حلقه ای که تو برایم آوردی
در روزی که ساده بودم
The World Is Nothing
The world is nothing
but a show:
lions leap through hoops of fire,
some heads get snared in a noose,
and my finger slips through the ring you gave me
when I was simple
The World Is Nothing
The world is nothing
But a show
Lions pass through fire rings
Some heads pass through the rope ring
And my finger passes through the ring you brought me
On the day I was simple
As you’ll see from Alireza’s literal translation, the word ‘ring’ occurs three times whereas we had to change ‘ring’ to ‘hoop’ and then ‘noose’. A very powerful small poem, with a devastating final line.
In the original Farsi, none of these poems has a title. Because of the way our website is set up, we’ve had to use the first line as the title for each of them.
Sarah Maguire, Workshop Facilitator