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De Iraanse dichteres, schrijfster en vredesactiviste Rira Abbasi werd geboren in 1962 in Khorramabad, Iran. Zij werd benoemd tot vrouwelijke Poet Laureate en was winnares van de Parvin Etesami Poëzie Prijs in 2005, Rira is ook lid van de Iraanse Writers Association en directrice van het tweejaarlijkse International Peace Poëzie festival sinds 2007. “Zwarte fee van woensdag” (2000), “Geen geweren meer voor deze Lors vrouw” (2001) en haar gewaagde bundel liefdesgedichten “Wie bemint je discreter?” (Engels:”Who Loves You More discreet?) (2002) behoren tot haar bekendste werken. Rira Abbasi heeft in 2002 ook de eerste collectie van Iraanse Vredespoëzie geredigeerd en uitgegeven (een bloemlezing).
Had the Sky Been Blue
My friend,
sitting on my little shoulders,
Iranian, Bosnian, Iraqi, Afghan….
my friend
for the same of your smile
my shoulders are born
every morning early
to remove your wounds
although they have shut your smile
with gunpowder
perhaps in the absence of the first war,
second war
third or the last one.
My friend
when you let your silent fly and you spoke
at a distance, the size of one thousand part of the ant’s wing
then
all the bombs in the world will grew silent
in front of you.
we all know
you are alive beyond the natural strength of man
when in the plan
you are returning home
tired, wounded and abandoned.
Which home are you returning?
When the sky is empty of peace
and the prevailing war
is tearing away your newborn’s eye
until the end of his life
I grieve for your future
I grieve for the future.
I am tired
but
I worry for your future…
I draw a nucleus from the atoms of wounds
your body is thin
tomorrow
tomorrow
I will get my shoulders born wider
for the same of your smile
had the sky been blue.
Vertaald door M. Alexandrian
