پنج زن – شعری از مجید نفیسی

     Five Women

        By Majid Naficy

At sunrise

In hills by the seaside

I descend 189 steps

And then climb 189 steps

Five times without pause

In the name of my mother and four sisters

And start and finish each round

In honor of each one:

The first round for a joyful mother

The second, a gentle angel

The third, a Gordafarid* without a mask

The fourth, an apprehensive Hamlet

And the fifth, a painter of pain.

When for the final time

I climb the last landing

I hang a string of beads

Which I have been threading

Around my neck

And return home, happily.

        May 11, 2015

*- A female warrior in the epic of Shahnameh, composed by Ferdowsi(935-1020) in Persian. Gordafarid  hides her identity by wearing a mask.