TO BE ONESELF

O tall,
      immortal cypress,
So exalted, so free,
I wish I could,
                       like you,
Be truly happy
With what I am.

I wish I could,
                       like you,
Indifferent to it all,
Drunkenly stay
Under the torrential rain,
And dance with the wind.

 

Mahmud Kianush

 


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