By Mali Mostoufi

May our Persian New Year,

Last forever.

May heaven celebrate it even.

May we worship the light of the Sun,

Rather to live in the Darkness,

This man-made color on  Earth.

Born we are to be Free,

Happy, with Love in our hearts too.

 Who initiated hatred and wars?

And why dragged we are in both?

--Time and again. --

May we be free from evil.

Let us open our hearts,

To one another.

May the Persian New Year,

Re-make us again:

To be citizens of this word.

Let us sing the song from a prophet of Love:

"Thanks for the human heart by which we live,

Thanks for its tenderness, its joys, and fears;

To me the meanest flower that blows, can give:

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."   *

May Persian New Year,

Show us the way to care:

For our humanity.

Mali Mostoufi – NY  March 03, 2008

*Four verses By William Wordsworth – English poet (1770—1850)

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