NOTHING

Remembering you

Is easy to do:

Brown eyes spangling

Black hair dangling

Red lips pouting

Cheekbones flouting

Teeth white gleaming

Soft skin steaming

Shoulders set square

Figure so fair

Legs smooth and long

Hands small but strong.

And so I have you:

Set in rhymes so reviled

That even a tiny child

Could remember them well.

What worries me though

Is that you might recall

Nothing of me at all –

Making me truly nothing.

This poem was written almost five years ago when the early drafts of "Conquest of the Persian Garden" and "Old Shemiran Road" were being developed.  The picture is, of course, of Golshifteh Farahani, a Persian actress now exiled from Iran.