A*SH*N*A:BIJAN JALAI'S I AM OUTSIDE ME

POEM OF SOIL,POEM OF SUN/sher e khak,sher e khorshid
by:
BIJAN JALALI,1378-1396
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I
I AM OUTSIDE ME
LIKE WIND OUTSIDE THE WINDOW
OR WATER AT SEA
I AM EVERYWHERE BUT OUTSIDE ME
AND ALL THERE IS
IS OUTSIDE
FULL OF ME.
ONLY POSSIBLE ONES
SMILED TO ME
AND PASSED BY
AND I GRABBED
THE POSSIBLE ONES.
II
I have a word
I never
wrote
Because it is whiter than the paper
III
What a luck!
When it snows
And you know
Birds' body is warm.
IV
WHITE DOVE
The words of my poems
Are like white doves
And the day is
Lighter than their white wings