{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Easterngirl wrote","author_name":"Easterngirl (npub1sf…y39lg)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1sffmhwnjwjj26np6hveft29q77f3avt9dnsgsqate0dxerus7m0q2y39lg","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"One of my favorite poems is For the Rosenbergs by Houshang Ebtehaj, the Iranian poet better known by his pen name, H. E. Sayeh, which means “Shadow.”\n\nThe poem was written in reference to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American couple executed in 1953. But for me, its meaning goes far beyond that historical tragedy.\n\nOver the past fifteen years, whenever the Iranian government has executed people, this poem has returned to my mind. I have memorized it, and its words keep echoing inside me every time another life is taken. The grief in this poem feels painfully familiar, as if it were speaking not only of a tragedy from another time and place, but also of the recurring sorrow of my own country.\n\nHere is English rendering of its opening lines:\n\nThe news was brief: They had executed them.\nThe little girl cried out.\nHer lips trembled.\nHer weary eyes filled with tears,\nand she burst into sobs.\nAnd with an aching effort,\nI hid my tears.\n“Why did they execute them?”\nshe asks me,\nher tear-filled eyes fixed on mine.\n“Why did they execute them?”\nMy darling, my daughter,\nthere is a strange and terrible world\nwhere lies and hatred reign supreme.\n…..\nThere, truth and human dignity\nare dismissed as empty, meaningless words.\nThere, robbery, murder, and bloodshed\nare free to roam unchecked.\n…….\nMy darling, my daughter,\nthey executed them\nfor their hatred of me,\nfor their hatred of you,\nfor their hatred of truth.\n……..\nMy darling,\nwipe the tears from your face.\nRise to your feet.\nYou live on in me,\nand I live on in you.\nWe shall never die.\nYou and I,\nwith thousands more,\nshall carry on along this path.\nVictory shall be ours.\nTomorrow shall be ours,\nwith all its joy\nand all its promise of happiness.\n\n\nI wish I could share the entire poem in English, but I haven’t been able to verify a published, authoritative English translation. These lines are AI rendering, not an official translation.\nAnd a bit of Farsi:\n\nخبر کوتاه بود \nاعدامشان کردند…\n#freedom #execution #Victory #poem\nnostr:nevent1qqsgt9498u6q5d3w3lg835q9ezdplhhqltp8d26smnkgxh8ujm6twyqh0rftk"}