Buland Al-Haydari

A small piece of sand inside the great respect that the free citizen must give to the Great Iraqi People.

Buland Al-Haydari. Iraq (1926-1996)










THE POSTMAN

What do you want postman?
I am far away from the world
with no doubt you are mistaken...
since there is nothing new
that the world can bring to this fugitive.
What was it
is what is still the same:
Dream
or buried
or evoke
until the people still has their festives
and there funerals together feast with feast
the eyes unburied in their minds
another bone to a new hunger.
China still has the wall
a whipe myth and a repeated destiny
the Earth still has its' Sísifo
and a stone that does not know what it wants.

Postman
with no doubt you are mistaken...
since nothing is new
return to the road
since the road so many times has brought you.
And what we want?


Translated by Isaac Pereira