به دار زدن محسن – شعری از مجید نفیسی

Hanging Mohsen on the Gallows

by

Majid Naficy

        In Memory of Mohsen Shekari

Oh, Rain!

How long do you pound on my roof

And disrupt my sleep?

Are you coming from the prison gate

Where yesterday, Mohsen’s mother

Shouted from her depth

Upon hearing the news of her son’s execution?

I open the window

To hear her shouts better

From the prison and the gallows

From the burial and her mourning.

I want to return to the streets of Iran

To stand with Mahsas and Mohsens

Speaking of woman, life, freedom

Until capital punishment is abolished

The hanging Mullahs stand at courts

And the age of humanity begins.

        December 9, 2022