Sepideh Zamani

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE



I’ve lived a strange life

Do not follow me, our paths are not the same
And this road does not lead you to me
I have crossed rocky roads
And their highs and lows, their twists and turns
You and I are not alike
We are strangers to one another
We have existed in mirrored galaxies
That had only a name in common and nothing more
And we have never met one another, only our ghosts
You are not from my homeland
Go back and look again
At the path that I have taken
And my bloody footprints
On the sharp, jagged rocks on a road of a land
That did not belong to either of us
You and I are not alike, do not follow me
We are thousands of light years apart from one another
We have existed in (extraterrestrial/mirrored) worlds
Do not look for me in your motherland
That which you saw was never me.

Translated from Farsi by Sage Mosavi

Iran