Another Birth

“

… I shall wear

a pair of twin cherries as ear-rings

and I shall put dahlia petals on my finger-nails

there is an alley

where the boys who were in love with me

still loiter with the same unkempt hair

thin necks and bony legs

and think of the innocent smiles of a little girl

who was blown away by the wind one night…

“

Forugh Farokhzad-1963