The Postman - Buland Al-Haydari

What do you want postman?

I am far away from the world

with no doubt you are mistaken...

since there is nothing new

that the world can bring to this fugitive.

What was it

is what is still the same:

Dream

or buried

or evoke

until the people still has their festives

and there funerals together feast with feast

the eyes unburied in their minds

another bone to a new hunger.

China still has the wall

a whipe myth and a repeated destiny

the Earth still has its Sísifo

and a stone that does not know what it wants.

Postman

with no doubt you are mistaken...

since nothing is new

return to the road

since the road so many times has brought you.

And what we want?

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Buland Al-Haydari (1926-1996) Iraq

Translated by Isaac Pereira

Source: Poets of the World