bāri, agar roozi kasi az man bepors-ad chandi ke dar roo-ye zamin boodi che kardi? man mi-goshāy-am pish-e rooy-ash daftar-am rā geryān o khandān bar-miafrāz-am sar-am rā ān-gāh mi-gooy-am ke bazri now feshāndeh-st tā beshekofad, tā bar-dahad, besyār māndeh -st dar zir-e in nili sepehr-e bi-karāneh chandān ke yārā dāshtam dar har tarāneh nām-e boland-e eshgh rā tekrār kardam bā in sedā-ye khasteh, shāyad khofteh-ee rā dar chār-soo-ye in jahān bidār kardam man, mehrbāni rā sotood-am man, bā badi peykār kardam pazhmordan-e yek shākheh gol rā, ranj bordam marg-e ghanāri dar ghafas rā ghosseh khord-am vaz ghosseh-ye mardom shabi sad bār mord-am sharmandeh az khod nistam gar chon masihā ān-jā ke faryād az jegar bāyad keshidan man bā saboori, bar jegar dandān feshord-am ammā agar peykār bā nā-bekhrad-ān rā shamshir bāyad mi-gereft-am bar man nagiri! man, be rāh-e mehr raftam dar cheshm-e man shamshir dar mosht ya’ni ya’ni kasi rā mi-tavān kosht dar rāh-e bāriki ke az ān mi-gozasht-am tāriki-e bi-dāneshi, bi-dād mi-kard imān be ensān shab cherāgh-e rāh-e man bood shamshir, shamshir dast-e ahreman bood tanhā selāh-e man dar in meydān, sokhan bood she’r-am agar dar khāteri ātash na-yafrookht ammā delam chon choob-e tar az har do sar sookht bargi az in daftar bekhān shāyad begooy-i āyā ke az in mi-tavān-ad bish-tar sookht? shab-hāye bi-pāyān na-khoftam peyghām-e ensān rā be ensān bāz-goft-am harf-am nasimi az diyār āshti bood dar khārzār-e doshmani-hā shāyad ke toofāni gerān bāyast mi-bood tā bar-kanad bonyān-e in ahrimani-hā pir-ān-e pish az mā nasihat-vār goft-and: dir ast, dir ast tāriki-e rooh-e zamin rā niroo-ye sad chon mā, nedā-yi dar kavir ast noohi degar mi-bāyad o toofān-e digar donyā-ye digar sākht bāyad vaz now dar ān ensān digar ammā hanooz, in mard-e tanhā-ye shakibā bā kooleh bār-e showgh-e khod rah mi-sepār-ad tā az del-e in tiregi noori bar-ārad55 dar har kenāri, sham’-e she’ri mi-gozār-ad e’jāz-e ensān rā hanooz ommid dārad e’jāz-e ensān rā hanooz ommid dārad