Parwana Amiri is an author, poet and activist from Afghanistan who is living in Greece since September 2019. Her poetry may seem softly written, but it contains hidden stories and bitter truths.
Refugees must live far from their homeland for years. Afghanistan is Parwana’s homeland, where she was born there and grew up. She is missing Afghanistan often, and in this poem she calls beauties of Afghanistan that she misses.
An Illustration by Shukran Shirzad, an Afghani artist living in Greece
An Afghan girl who is sitting on the high branches of a tree , watching the far ways from there . A girl with Afghan traditional clothes that is inspired by everyday’s life of girls in Badakhshan and northern provinces of Afghanistan is a shepherd, while keeping the sheep in the bowers of Badakhshan.
You miss me !
If I am far from your garden and bower
You miss me!
If I am far from your soil and land
You miss me!
If I was butterfly around your candle
You miss me!
If I was tired and sick of you
You miss me!
If your soil was kohl of my eyes
You miss me!
If I was crying while missing you
You miss me!
If I read history of your war to love you
You miss me!
If I read stories of your sky and land
You miss me!
If I was against you enemies with my pen
You miss me!
If I miss you over life and death borders
You miss me!
You miss me with your spring wind!
You miss me with an anemone flower!
You miss me with that ancient Herat!
You miss me with pomegranate of Kandahar!
You miss me with Ghazni and Badakhshan!
You miss me with Kabul and Orozgan !
You miss me with garmet of creature!
You miss me with unity and solidarity!
You miss me if I am far from your embrace!
You miss me that I die being alone!
You miss me!
You miss me!