By Samaneh Nazerian

This is life


We never get,

What we have wanted,

And never want,

What we have gotten.


We never have,

What we have liked,

And never like,

What we’ve had.


We live as if,

We never will die,

We die as if,

We’d never lived, why?


We get bored with childhood,

Living in peace and brotherhood,

We rush to grow up and then,

Long to be children again.


We lose our health,

To make money,

To restore our health,

We lose money!


The future, our only concern,

The present is forgotten,

Then to the last,

We live in the past!


We can’t make anyone love us,

Can’t be the world’s beloved, thus!


Let’s know no bounds,

In lovers, opening wounds,

Takes a minute, close to tears,

But healing them, so many years!


We should try to love others,

See and observe all the others,

Know differences between brothers,

Not to compare ourselves to others!


The one with the most,

Is not the richest; but is toast!

The one who needs the least,

Is rich, top of the list!


Let’s be generous,

To be forgiven more or less,

Practice forgiveness,

At first, on ourselves!


God is always near,

We’re still alive here,

There is still hope,

Don’t reach the end of your rope,

There is still a goal,

This is life, on the whole.