Paradise

"Agar firdaus bar rui zaminast ; haminast u haminast u haminast."
(If there be a paradise on earth; it is this, it is this , none but this)

Every breath says that this be the paradise
why oh why then have I been told that the reverse
is true
that you

are yet to bloom
are yet to blossom
into the artist
you were
meant to be

perchance I believe
in a blatant lie
that forbidden colors of Eden
shall be handed over and a pen

to paint, color and portray
in vivid hues gone astray
the true picture of the paradise
that, indeed, in reality lies

in the unspoken depths
of my heart
too deeply buried
like a treasure
un-retrieved.