شاهزاده فارسی من My Persian Princess

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My Perfect Persian Princess

Vision of loveliness, angel divine

I am fortunate  that you are the lady of mine

These lines I compose to try to impress

My Beautiful and Perfect Persian Princess

Separated by family and cultural walls

Love will conquer and confound them all:

And over mountains steep and desert sands

Our hands extended across foreign lands.

But will it be Oxford or old Istanbul,

Ancient Damascus or darkest Kabul:

Tehran or London where our paths coincide,

And my Persian Princess will walk at my side.

So many barriers impede desires to meet:

Religious and political enmities all to defeat,

Love’s inevitable quest for hearts to caress

And the old soldier at last greets, his Persian Princess.

Christopher J Green 29^th February 2012.