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by Lazo Azad (2008)
I shut my eyes
Flap my wings
And I replenish darkness with colour
air thickens
Love revamps it’s guise
A gentle breeze blows
Blood and prayer cover the skies
A mirage immersed in the sand
Our memoirs pierce me like a dagger
Your eyes turn into a spark
as pain curves over my vision
Earth perfumed with scent of lemon
your eyes well up
with sorrow
Then your breath infused with basil
A flock of wings
identical to a flock of sores
As a bunch of black hair
permeate the sky
Love changes your guise
Our memories stab you as a dagger
Earth stretches between us
We both reach out with our hands
to shrink the ground between us
I curl up like a hedgehog in thunderstorm
I don’t turn back
in the same way as our memoirs
don’t look back at us
Damp earth consumes me
Only your sparkle touches me
The space between us
Shines just like the eyes of a black wolf
Missing you falls into my lap
like a blond star
Our love recast the colour of the world
our memories pierce the earth like a dagger.
Translation from Kurdish to English by Azad Aziz