TO THE SIZE OF A WINDOW

In a room as big as loneliness

my heart

which is as big as love

looks at the simple pretexts of its happiness

at the beautiful decay of flowers in the vase

at the sapling you planted in our garden

and the song of canaries

which sing to the size of a window.

{From one of my favorite poems ever, Another Birth by Forough Farrokhzad}