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“Please let my hair grow, Mother, don’t cut it.
A trimmed tree
Is no place for song birds.”
-Anonymous: Landeys
Afghanistan (Pashto)
My Mama never cut my hair
But for once, when I was a girl
And it had become a knotted rope.
A nest had formed, beyond untangling,
And it had to be cut out,
Although the song birds had already
Found its shelter.
One by one I had to let them go,
Say goodbye to song.
