Modern Persian Poetry - Mahmud Kianush's: Return To Childhood

Return To Childhood

A Poem by

Mahmud Kianush

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With the despair of old age

I desire to fly

In a return to my childhood:

To make the world

My playmate again,

And like a mother

To hold everything in my arms

With the delight of innocence.


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