Some poems by Mani Sharifian

1. Love Series

2. 1.Sudden Love Said I won't fall in love again But never knew I'd meet you Said my heart would be closed forever Till I started thinking of you When I met you the first time Never knew you stole it from me What I kept locked all this time My heart, you were to set it free

3. 2.This is a song This is a song For the owner of the most beau tiful smile This is a boat Where you and I toget her sailed for a while This is a song For someone who gave me happiest of days Or it’s a bird Who made my heart a nest and always stays

4. This is a song For the eyes, brighter than mithril mines It’s a jew el That compared to your eyes, no lo nger shines This is a song That is about a love that never dies This is a boy Who once was in love but now, just smiles

5. Thank you for the days, for the nights, for the dreams Or even for the nightmares and most horrible scenes Cause you were with me I was always strong And I always will be By singing this song

6. 3.The Weakest Is it my fault that I fell in love? Or the path, lead me wrong that way Is it sun's fault to shine up in sky? Or in that way, by God, it was made So if it's like this, why a weakness It's always called, to fall in love? Again in this case, I gladly confess I AM the weakest swallow, flying above

7. 4.A Love Story More beautiful than all chests of gold, Is a love story, so gracefuly told, Most important is to stay brave and bold And finish the story even hither so cold

8. 5.Illusion's End Love is something that comes and goes Like a b oiling river that rapidly flows And falls from a mountain, and shows His anger by drowning his foes It seems I was an old stern foe And this tricky river wanted to show That I better stop and let it go And be the old, sad little swallow

9. Soon it'll return, my h eart I gave a way Among ferns, there's no time to stray Even at night when it goes to sleep, the day, Kind stars are still there, show ing th e way

10. 6.Last Year This was the result of the year that passed. A broken heart burnt by a fire blast. Flames of Love consumed another leaf Of the Red Rose of my life so fast.

11. Have a good time Mani Sharifian Summer 2005, Tehran