Halos
Halos is a video art piece, based on “Halos”, a poem in Farsi in the collection of poetry, “Songs of Prison”, by Amir-Hossein Sajadieh, translated into English by Sahar Sajadieh and Nader Rafiee.
Song 49(Halos)
They took
Everyone
Everything
All there was
Up
Up
To the edge
Up and into the pit
Sleeping in the Earth
Up to the dream of history.
The ashes that smell of you
Will linger in the prison
In halos
Dark halos
In the memory of the air
Will meld with
The sand
The stones
The cement.
Perhaps one day
The wall will collapse
And freedom will come
And dance
With joy
In halos
And halos
In the air.
They took
Everything there was
Everyone there was
Up
Up
Up
To the dream of history.
