Free Lantern

These days you often hear the whispers of war again, and this time Iran is on the line. My Good friends in “Without Border Association” (Anjomane Bedoone Marz) have prepared a special issue against war which includes anti-war articles and poetry (in Persian). One of the poems which is written by a good friend of mine, Sina, is called I’m Human. As I found this poem very similar to what my Eutopea is, I translated it to English a while ago, after Sina’s approval I publish it here to say “I am a human too”.

I’m a human.

Afore being a Muslim, I’m a human.
Afore being an Iranian, I’m a human.
Afore being a woman or a man, I’m a human.
Afore being a black/white/red/yellow skin color, I’m a human.
Afore being left or Right, I’m a human.
Afore being the Prince or the Pauper I’m a human.
Afore being in the unfair competition in the capitalist world, I’m a human.

I’m a human.
Afore judging people with what they own I appraise their humanity.

I’m a human.
I’m the yield of the community where I was born and lived in. The rulers have made the society, an unfair society is the result of “human looking” rulers. As a human; I’ll change the rulers with the help and contribution of other “humans”.

I’m a human.
Humans are different so I respect the differences.

I’m a human,
Subjection and discrimination anywhere in the world is a sign of discrimination and subjection for all humans.

I’m a human; I’ll tremble alongside the shivers of Ukrainian homeless.
I’m a human; I will fast alongside the hunger of Rwandese children.
I’m a human; I’ll cry alongside the sobs of innocent Iraqi’s mother.
I’m a human; I’ll polish the shoes alongside the Indian kids’ small hands.
I’m a human; I’ll harvest alongside the exhausted Senegalese farmer.
I’m a human; I’ll draw freedom signs on prison’s wall alongside Lori.
I’m a human; I’ll burn in freedom fever inside the prison cell alongside Ganji.
I’m a human; I’ll suffer alongside the raped Cape Town women.

I’m a human; I want my rights to Live,
I don’t ask for these rights from my family,
not from my rulers,
not from my God,
I ask this right from other humans.

I’m a human; afore pointing a Gun against another human’s heart I’m a human.

I’m a human; I’m the heir of thousands of years of human’s fight against discrimination, oppression and darkness.

I’m a human; I was born to build so I’ve abandoned destruction to beasts and villains.

I’m a human; so I’ll make a better world for all the humans.

Poem originally in Persian by Sina
Translation to English: Ali

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