Gift 

I am speaking to you 
from the edge of darkness 
and about the depths of night. 

I reach out to you 
from the thick layers of absolute shade. 

Darling! 
If you are coming to visit me, 
Then, bring me a torch
and put up for me a little window. 

I will then watch 
the noisy crowd of the happy alley. 

- Forough Farrokhzad - 

January 5, 1935 - February 13, 1967 

translation by Maryam Dilmaghani