اگر بهار بیاید
Agar Bahar Beyayad
“If Spring Were to Come”
If spring were to come — a conditional reunion poem, spring used as the figure for the beloved's return and the renewal she would bring to a world that has gone cold without her.
About This Recording
If Spring Were to Come uses the season as a figure for the beloved — spring's arrival standing in for her return, the warmth and flowering of the external world mirroring the internal transformation her presence would bring. It is a very Afghan image: spring on the Central Asian steppes is dramatic, the shift from extreme cold to color happening rapidly and completely.
The conditional form — 'if spring were to come' — holds the renewal at one remove, in the hypothetical. Spring has not come; the beloved has not returned. The song is the space between the wish and its fulfillment, which in the ghazal tradition is the most productive space for feeling.