Roya Nava - Author, Painter, Songwriter

Part 2- Looking Back Series

I wrote this poem in 1991, two months after leaving everything behind in Iran. I don’t remember writing it. But thirty-five years later, reading it feels like looking my teenage self in the eye and finally understanding what she was trying to survive.

https://royanava.substack.com/p/the-greatest-pain-in-all-existence

These posts are going somewhere, I promise:)