In answer to my daughter

Farideh Hassan Zadeh( Mostafavi)
    Because it was wartime

    and I needed love

    to taste a bit of peace.


    Because I was over thirty

    and I needed blooming

    before becoming droopy.


    Because divorce is a word

    for men and women

    not for mothers and children.


    Because you can never say:

    my ex-mother

    even when you attend my funeral.


    And nothing, nothing in this world

    can separate a mother from her child

    neither hate nor death.


    And you hate me

    because I brought you into existence

    only for my fear of loneliness


    And you'll never forgive me

    until the day you bring a child into existence

    unable to bear the burning ashes of

              your dreams.
    
Farideh Hassan Zadeh( Mostafavi) - Mostafavi is an Iranian poet, translator and freelance journalist. Her first book of poetry was published when she was twenty-two. Her poems appear in the anthologies Contemporary Women Poets of Iran and Anthology of Best Women Poets.. She is the author of The Last Night with Sylvia Plath: Essays on Poetry .She has extensively translated World literature into Persian.
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