“Let’s dance. Do you know any tunes?” asked the man. “By the way, my name is James, what is yours?”
”I am a mountain man.” I replied. “I have no name”
“May I call you Mountain?” asked James. “Do you know any tunes?”
“Let’s imagine a tune and then dance to it” I said
He asked, “What tune is that?”
“Let’s dance to the tune of…” and then I sang:
“The sound of immigrant waves
While escaping the bloody mouths of sharks
And seeking sanctuary and shelter at sea ends
While constantly repelled by shores
Let’s dance to the sound of seagulls’ wings in the wind
When diving to catch fish
And the sounds of those fishes who wail for life
On the journey towards seagulls’ throat
Let’s dance to the sound of larks who sing in the rain
And calling for the return of the sun
While dark clouds have covered the sky
While the earth frightened and trembled from the threat of a flood
Let’s dance to the sound of waterfall from the top of the mountain to the depth of the land
While scared of such big falls
Like the movement of people scattered by force of high tech shootings
As stains of blood paints every corners of the world
Let’s dance to the sad song of an old mother
Who is confined to her lonesome room
While waiting for her son,
To return safe from human inflicted inhumane wars
Let’s dance to Chernobyl and the Fukushima nuclear disaster
While we ignore the toil and agony of people who fall in these traps
Despite all of these, mankind fails to embrace natural energy
Such as wind power, ocean waves, solar energy and hydroelectric power
Let’s dance to the bleat of the sheep who wail
For their lamb babies being slaughtered
In front of them
For barbeques and the joy of human beings
Let’s dance to the sound of Mother Nature when she turns nasty
In the shape of floods, earthquakes and volcanoes
While we fail to build houses to withstand these disasters
And keep forgetting these turmoil and catastrophes
Let’s dance to the sound of Third World children
Who suffer from thirst, hunger and disease
While we in the west spend billions on weaponry and the so-called defence
Although we are capable of prevention and cure
Yes let’s dance while we hopelessly fail to find an escape gate,
for constant natural disasters, despite our advanced technology.
and also we fail to get involved united,
to find a way out of inhumane tragedies which are inflicted by human beings
Let’s dance and may our dancing foot steps’ sounds
Awaken the world from these nightmares.
Let’s dance!
Let’s dance!”
Fridoun Vahidi
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