Khatemi addresses the public and speaks beautifully, with sensitivity, wisdom, Vision: his words sparkle ,
His feet bleeding from the razor he stands on.

Iranians digesting what they have just heard
Stir chirping “all he does is talk.”
They are so petrified they dare not ralley
Or issue the rallying cry
Sure their head and body will become disaqquainted.

But what concrete ideas do they have about good government?
Democracy and freedom, a shirt of smoke they havn’t tried on yet.

One of the few states left in the world independant of the US
This moment the head of a mighty lion streching back 7000 years.

In any age “leaders are theives, selling us out to foreign interests”
The government is to blame, “Iran can do nothing” under the Shah and now...
How could it be different? - is it the government or Iranians themselves?