Dark Side
By Hamid Abdollahzadeh
I have sat upon the Moon,
Gazing at the Earth’s sundown.
I behold myself,
For heavyheartedness has fatigued me.
And yet this distance has not even taken the edge off it.
I’m agaze;
And, it matters not how much the Earth rotates and revolves,
I do not come out of the dark side of it.
Just as the blue sky would not be there,
And you would still seek yourself in the midst of a blue dot,
From everywhere in the universe…
Just as there would neither be wind nor rain,
To erase your footprint…
Just this…
If only there was no gravity,
Then I would never ever be able
To once again land upon that dark side.
Hamid Abdollahzadeh is a 29-year-old Iranian poet whose poems are mostly about love, loneliness and the situation of the society in which he lives.