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Gülten Akın

AS IF DRAWING

What are you to me, what am I to you, without pointing
You penetrate like a stranger
From the visible things in you
I derived an invisible hope
Seems like I carried your air to my room
Was I wrong to think indeed
The vine grows from a single seed

The ones who die in a fight within themselves
All of a sudden or by and by
Should they pile up or stand like remnants
The world stinks with them
Without war, without filth, without fight, without hunger
A fairy-tale, you: as if drawing an infinite sky
If only for every one

ÇİZECEK GİBİSİN

ÇİZECEK GİBİSİN

Neyimsin, neyinim, bir uç vermeden
Yabancı yabancı giriyorsun
Sende görünür olandan
Görünmezin umudunu aldım
Sanki iklimini odama taşıdım
Yanıldım mı, yetişir mi sandım
Bir çekirdekten bir asma

Kendi kavgasının içinde ölenler
Birden ya da yavaş yavaş
Birikseler mi kalıntı mı dursalar
Dünya ağır kokuyor onlarda
Ne savaş ne kir ne kavga ne açlık
Bir masal, bitimsiz bir gökyüzü çizecek gibisiz
Herkes için olsa
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AS IF DRAWING

What are you to me, what am I to you, without pointing
You penetrate like a stranger
From the visible things in you
I derived an invisible hope
Seems like I carried your air to my room
Was I wrong to think indeed
The vine grows from a single seed

The ones who die in a fight within themselves
All of a sudden or by and by
Should they pile up or stand like remnants
The world stinks with them
Without war, without filth, without fight, without hunger
A fairy-tale, you: as if drawing an infinite sky
If only for every one

AS IF DRAWING

What are you to me, what am I to you, without pointing
You penetrate like a stranger
From the visible things in you
I derived an invisible hope
Seems like I carried your air to my room
Was I wrong to think indeed
The vine grows from a single seed

The ones who die in a fight within themselves
All of a sudden or by and by
Should they pile up or stand like remnants
The world stinks with them
Without war, without filth, without fight, without hunger
A fairy-tale, you: as if drawing an infinite sky
If only for every one
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