Diyaare Ashti

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