Girls of Minab! Poet: Marzieh Mohebbi (persian) with English translation
Girls of Minab
Little girls wrapped in compulsory veils.
Girls promised away in forced marriages.
Girls pulled from their classrooms
into kitchens, cradles, and pregnancies not their own.
Girls of the poisoned schools,
of sudden fainting, hospital beds,
and the long silence that followed.
Girls written into laws of “population youth,”
cast as makers of soldiers and laborers,
enduring brutal births
and the quiet inheritance of lifelong pain.
Girls with cracked skulls,
with unruly hair that refused obedience,
answered with prisons, lashes, fines,
and still the command: cover yourselves.
Girls condemned to homes of violence,
denied the right to leave,
denied the right to work,
sentenced to a lifetime of dependence.
Girls of protest,
of Kalashnikovs raised against them,
of bullets and firing lines,
of gutters in the streets
running red.
Girls of endless labor,
hands worn thin by the work
no one names and no one pays.
Girls seized in the first hours of war,
held inside the barracks of the Guards,
used again and again
as tools of a stubborn machinery.
Your small dresses,
your schoolbags,
your notebooks stained with blood,
turned into the language of war,
repeated like a hollow chant.
Beloved girls of Minab,
precious daughters of Iran,
petals scattered by the storm,
fallen in the restless, unforgiving days of war.
Posted Mar 14, 2026, 3:14 AM UTC