Source: Charlie Rose
The poem was recited by Iranian visual artist (now lives in New York) Shirin Neshat. An original work of another Iranian activist Simina bahane (I think thats how she pronounced the name).
Have eaten up some words as I didn't necessarily heard it properly. Please forgive me if I am completely misspelling (Which I believe so) the name of the poetess.
My Country I will build you again
My Country I will build you again
If need be with bricks made from my life
I will build columns to support your roof
If need be with my bones
I will inhale again the perfume of flowers flavored by your youth
I will wash again the blood of your body
with ........of my tears
once more the darkness will leave this house
I will paint my poems blue with the color of our sky
Old I may be but given the chance
I will learn
I will begin the second youth alongside my ,,,??
I will recite a habib?Hizab?.. a love of country
with such ferver as to make each word be alive
There still burns a fire in my breast
To keep undiminished the wounds of kinship
I feel for my people
Once more you will grant me strength
Though my poems have settled in blood
Once more I will build you with my life
Though it be beyond my mean.
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