Masoud Saad Salman (Poems) / When I struck the drum of departure like the call to journey

This is the opening of a Persian poem written in classical style. The lines speak of time's transient nature, comparing it to a bow and shield that shift constantly. The text evokes the heavens as pregnant with days and nights, describes existence as a drama played out between good and evil, and invokes divine will and fortune in the face of changing fate. The imagery draws on traditional Persian poetic vocabulary of time's instability and human vulnerability before cosmic forces.