bring two cups of tea to the eye of the storm and let us drink them under the cold barrage of voices
let us write a book on the soil with a preface written by gods and a dandelion index as boundless as time
let us write about an earth in which tree leaves are sacred its rain is the verdict of fluttering and its children are the blue pellucid of life and its people prostrate to the skies
let us speak of an earth on which tulips don't grow* swallows stay and plant dandelions
let us write a book in the diameter of dreams in the length of smile and width of tears with the weight of seedlings by the ink dripping from the lips of spring
— M. Melia
*this poem was written in Persian first. in Persian, tulips are the symbol of people who've lost their lives in wars.