{"id":406,"date":"2009-03-17T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=406"},"modified":"2009-03-17T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:59:51","slug":"how-much-of-the-world-i-can-see-by-m-k-sadegh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/how-much-of-the-world-i-can-see-by-m-k-sadegh\/","title":{"rendered":"How much of the world I can see? by M.K.Sadegh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20090317-by sadigh.jpg' width='226' height='144' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nHow many windows are possibly needed?<br \/>\nTo know our world to know ourselves<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How much of the world I can see?<\/p>\n<p>How much of the world I can see?<br \/>\nThrough my window<br \/>\nHow much of the sky?<br \/>\nHow much of the horizon?<br \/>\nAnd how many trees<br \/>\nAnd how many clouds floating in my sky<\/p>\n<p>And how many people love each other<br \/>\nAnd how many separate<br \/>\nAnd how many recon ciliate<br \/>\nHow many will be born and how many get sick<br \/>\nAnd how many will die<br \/>\nHow much of the totality of life<br \/>\nIs viewed in my window<\/p>\n<p>And how far I can see<br \/>\nFrom the whole world<br \/>\nAnd how much of the whole world<br \/>\nLeft unseen to me<br \/>\nAnd how can I see the totality of existence<br \/>\nThrough the six billion other persons\u2019 windows<br \/>\nOf the world and their existence<\/p>\n<p>Do I know what I see or they see?<br \/>\nAnd how much we see?<br \/>\nDo I know where my place is?<br \/>\nIn the whole world<br \/>\nAnd how I can meet other six billion<br \/>\nAre the others like me in perplexity?<br \/>\nBeyond knowledge<br \/>\nHow many windows are possibly needed?<br \/>\nTo know our world to know ourselves<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\nI came back<br \/>\nA thousand years later<\/p>\n<p>I came back a thousand years later<br \/>\nThe chairs still were chairs<br \/>\nThe carpets old but lay on the floor<br \/>\nThe walls and doors and windows were old<br \/>\nBut they were there<br \/>\nI asked them about<br \/>\nThose charming breathtaking beauties<br \/>\nThey were all dead<br \/>\nI asked about those proud husky-men<br \/>\nWalking as if they were Gods<br \/>\nAnd unbeatable heroes<br \/>\nThey were gone and dead<br \/>\nI asked about the kings and queens<br \/>\nAnd empires and commanders<br \/>\nAnd the scientists and artists<br \/>\nThey showed me swords and crowns<br \/>\nThey showed me their jewels<br \/>\nTheir gold and silvers and gowns<br \/>\nThey showed me<br \/>\nTheir books and their art works<br \/>\nBut they were dead<br \/>\nI sat on a chair<br \/>\nAnd the chair asked me<br \/>\nHow long you will be sitting here?<\/p>\n<p>M. K. SADIGH<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many windows are possibly needed? To know our world to know ourselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}