The Mountain Holds Me

Written By Saba Hakimzadeh-Abianeh

As I step on your amazing back

my feet tickle your pebbles and I gently

weave through your terrain

Your permission holds me

and I must honor your contract

Much like the cows and the shepherd

I promise you my life for your joy and being

I offer you gratitude and my infinite sadness

I promise to come back to you one day

You transform my gifts and pains into yourself

you absorb me and promise to be there

when I return, your future full of flowers

Saba Hakimzadeh-Abianeh

Saba Hakimzadeh-Abyaneh is an artist and writer that is currently weaving poems. She writes to honor her homeland, the mountains, and her ancestors. Her current project, Village Gossip, is a collection of poems and images that imagines liberatory landscapes centered around her ancestral village of Abyaneh in Iran. With themes of displacement, grief, transmutation, and sacred beings. She is based in California.

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