Maytham (Meisam) Khaghani is an Iranian writer and poet based in Tehran. He is currently a student of English Literature at IAU, Central Tehran.
Freudian Discovery of Inner Self
Comprised of complexes complicates my soul:
Am I as attached as Electra to the one who hath begot me?
Men, you all resemble one another to me in some respect:
Aren’t you all my father in some retrospect?
Wove I the threads of my warp and weft
And reckoned up how I’d looked up
To men as suitable husbands
For I saw in them
What belonged to the father of mine.
Showed them, them I value and respect
But was returned no currency of worth!
Loved them I keenly to the very sinews
Of my soul, alas, no appreciative sign
Did I receive from them whom as my father had anointed I!
Gliding down is him, I believe
Gliding down is him, I believe.
Across the firmament, I grieve.
Sliding off the globe, I perceive
Him to be a noble prize, I conceive.
Plague him with blasphemy, I adore.
Plead him guilty, I abhor.
Losing my sanity, I implore
Him to give up his[1], I restore.
Breach his tyranny, I condone.
Blind his virility, I atone.
Borrow his drive, I own.
Buffet his honour, I groan.
Barricade his retail, I phone.
[1] His paramour
Artwork: Sadegh Tabrizi (1960), ink on vellum,
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