Imagination/Kishor Pahadi

translation: braZesh

Norway is a canvas
where sun peeks at midnight
and
jubilant with endless snowfall
I ask my country
how does it feel to have an ocean?

Beautiful and serene
and yet trumpeting
the music of development
when I see a proud Norway
me, a devastated child
crying and suffering from poverty
find my beauty being chased
by the same hunger
my beauty being washed away
by the unbearable pain

Oh,
where do I find the remedy?
when I see the mermaids
splashing in your waves
maybe we share the same
the search of freedom from our pain

You have made me long
for a heaven Norway