I REMEMBER OUR CHILDHOOD DAYS

“I remember our childhood days
when life was easy
and math problems hard.
Mom would help us with our homework
and dad was not at home
but at work.
After our chores,
we’d go to the old fort museum
with clips in our hair and pure joy in our hearts.
You, sister, wore the bangles
that
you, brother, got as a prize from the Dentist.
“Why the bangles?” the Dentist asked,
surprised,
for boys picked the stickers of cars instead.
“They’re for my sisters,” you said.
Mom would treat us to a bottle of Coke,
a few sips each. Then,
we’d buy the sweet smelling bread
from the same white van
and hand in hand,
we’d walk to our small flat
above the restaurant.
I remember our childhood days.
Do you remember them too?”

Kamand Kojouri

“All you need to get by in this world is the memory of love”

Kamand Kojouri

“My dear, please be careful.
You no longer live only for yourself.
You live for me as well.”

Kamand Kojouri

KNOWING YOU

“Knowing you,
I became mindless.
Having wasted previous wishes,
I’m riddled with regrets

Feeling you,
I became hopeless.
Adrift in chasms,
I surrender to a caress.

Loving you,
I became love.
My universe became love.
Planets rotate on love’s axes and
apples fall to be near their beloveds.

No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love.
I love, therefore
I exist,
therefore I
love.”

Kamand Kojouri

“I began missing you even before we met.”

Kamand Kojouri

“What I like most about us is the innocence. You bring the child out of me. And this is really the greatest gift of all: to have someone encourage and take delight in your childish manifestations. The day you lose this quality, this vast curiosity, will and hunger to explore all that is around you is the day you stop living.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Knowing you, I understood myself.”

Kamand Kojouri

“A purposeful life is the most important thing in the world. And love is the most important purpose of all.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back.”

Kamand Kojouri

MISSING YOU

“Missing you,
I missed a part of me
I shared with you
that’s now gone.

Missing you,
when really,
it was the way you made me feel
and the things you made us do.

Missing you
I shouldn’t be.
But I can’t help missing
who I was with you.

Missing you,
I missed
and missed so much of the world
and wasn’t even missed in return.”

Kamand Kojouri