IN LOVE WITH HER WOMB

Blind is the earth,
And in love with her womb,
With no compassion
For her own children:

She gives birth to them
And then
With fiendish cruelty devours them.

What seems to keep her happy
Is nothing
        but to be loved by the sun
And to be pregnant for ever.

 

Mahmud Kianush

 


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