It was a warm night in middle of August. Tehran was in a deep sleep. My eyes were in tears and I was getting ready to say goodbye to my motherland.
My story was just some more pages of the book of my generation's destiny. Like many other Iranians in my age, I had two choices, stay and struggle or leave and be alone, stay and fight for freedom or leave and survive in freedom. I chose leave over stay, loneliness over struggle and survival over fight. I was just a young son from an old land who left to see the world and taste the sweetness of freedom and sourness of Ghorbat.
Next day, I left for Rome but my dreams were in San Francisco. From that day it took me 4 years to make it to America and 8 years to San Francisco.
Today, finally I am calm, happy and grateful. I have a new home, new life and new destiny, and still after 12 years I get a chance to see, touch and breath my old life. In less than 20 days I will be walking in the crowd and crazy streets of Tehran, I will be smelling the roses of Kerman and eating pomegranates of Shabe Yalda in my very own home.
For the first time in my life I get a chance to not be alone and still be free.
I am going to my old home with the precious gift of freedom.
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Your Majesty
by Nazy Kaviani on Fri Dec 05, 2008 08:51 PM PSTTo "The King Without a Throne, and The Hajiagha Without a Prayer:"
Godspeed my wonderful friend. Have a happy and safe journey and come back to tell us all about it. Let's have at least one photo essay of your trip to the beautiful city by the desert. I hear it has skies unlike any other in the world. I never forget one of your blog entries on Kerman! I laughed like a lunatic for days!
Be safe and Bon Voyage!
Ala Jaan !!
by ebi amirhosseini on Fri Dec 05, 2008 04:26 PM PSTSoooooooooooo happy for you !!
Man I envy you !!!!!!!!!
Pleaaaaaaaaaaaase :
1-Eat a lot of Kolompeh,Komaache Sen,Faaloodeh kermooni,Zireh Polo with Keshmesh,Pesteh Kalle Ghoochi,Sohoone Naazoke Zarandi & Chang Maal !!.
2-Smell the Heavenly Smell around 2.00 PM ??!!!
3-Say my eraadat to Sarkaare Aaghaa.
4-Say hi to all my cousins in your Family !!.
5- Drink araghe Joopaar !!.
Take lots of pix pleaaaase !!.
Enjoy every moment of it my dear Hamshahri. Safar be salaamat.
Ebi aka Haaji
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For you & all Kermoonis :
تو مهربان بود ی
ماجرا اما
چه سخت تشنه جام محبت بودم
سخن تمام نشد ختم ماجرا پیدا
امید با تو نشستن
تلاش بی ثمری بود
چه کوشش شب و روزم
سان شخم زدن روی سینه دریا
و استغاقه به درگاهت
گره به باد زدن
و همچو کوفتن آب بود در هاون
مرا رهکردی ؟
مرا به مسلخ سلاخان
رها چرا کردی ؟
مرا که رام تو بودم
اسیر دام تو بودم
گذشتم از تو و آن پر فریب شهر بزرگ
کنون کنار کویرم
کویر بی باران
و مهربانی این مهربانترین یاران
تو کاش از این مردم ز مردم کرمان
به قدر یک ارزن
وفا و خوبی را
به وام بستانی
که مثل مهر درخشان شهر بخشنده
و همچو مردم این ملک مهربان باشی
تو ای بلای دل من بلند بالایم
تو ای برازنده
تو ا بلندتر از سروها و افراها
تو بر تمام بلندان باغ بالنده
بر این اسیر به غربت گذر توانی کرد ؟
بر این کویر نشین
بر این ز مهر تو محروم
نظر توانی کرد ؟
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حمید مصدق
alahazrat hajagha jan
by bajenaghe naghi on Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:55 PM PSTsafar be khayr. i know you will love it there and when you come back you will feel like a better man.