Poems from Nader Rahimi
Sea of Return
(Dedicated to the unknown migrants who lost their lives at sea before reaching Lampedusa)
They come from lands once mapped...
I am living in a country that does not dream of me.
It legislates against my will
then asks me to pledge allegiance.
It builds walls around...
Our deeds—once fleeting as breath—
begin to harden.
What we repeat in the soft chorus of belief and belonging,
gathers weight.
Ritual...
They say rivers begin from mountains,
Where snowmelt spills like secrets told
To stone and root, to winds grown bold —
A drop first, then a...
The spine of the world is broken,
It leans toward ruin—
its weight pressing down
with laws etched in blood and silence.
Unjust.
Cruel.
Cold...