A Message on the Road

  One day
  I will come, and bring a message.

  I will pour light into veins.
  And will cry out: O’ whose baskets are full of sleep!
  I brought you apples, the red apple of the sun

  I will present to the beggar a jasmine flower.
  I will give the pretty leper woman a gift of earrings.
  I will tell the blind man: The garden is so spectacular!
  I will be a peddler, peddle through alleys and cry out:
  Dew, dew, dew.
  A passerby will say: honestly, tonight is a dark night,
  I will give her the Milky Way.
  There is a legless girl on the bridge,
  I will put a constellation of stars around her neck.

  I will take away all the curses on the lips.
  I will tear down all the walls.

Translated by Mahvash Shahegh