Bicentenary Poems and Prose

Fort Shaykh Tabarsi: To the Bab

Fort Shaykh Tabrasi:
To The Bab

Life and death decisions
are not made by overthinking,
but automatically
without weighing the pros and con.

And so it was
at Fort Shaykh Tabrasi.

The Babis gathered there
in defense
of their own lives,
without any desire or thought
if killing countrymen.

It was the treachery
of the government troops
that finally won the battle
and cause the martyrdom
and imprisonment
of those who took refuge
in the fort.

Poet's Note: ▼

This is poem 90 of the 200 I am writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of The Bab. For more on this event see The Dawn-Breakers: Nabil's Narrative, Chapter XIX: The Mazindaran Upheaval, pages 234-377, and Chapter XX: The Mazindaran Upheaval (continued), page 378-429.