Endless Silence
I am like a brother to you well yes you can tell me
How you got married
How you stopped loving one night
All right you can tell me
And then in the days of that old photograph
Your Mother had not gone mad yet
Your hair was golden as it caressed your white shoulders
All right you can tell me
You used to laugh a lot
At trees
You were a sylph the forest kept you awake when it sprouted
All right you can tell me
Then you ran away from home
To thoughts solitude sleep death
Starknaked among the ruins of a fire
All right you can tell me
A girl a boy a stone shadows on the walls a girl a boy
Three hundred youths you had slept in a mountain shelter
Outside the snow was cold as wolves in your heart you froze like the stone age
All right you can tell me
Look tomorrow I am leaving for another darkness
Like cemeteries I am silent mournful deaf
Yes you no longer have faith in love yes you will love no one ever again
All right you can tell me
— Translated by Talat S. Halman. From Living Poets of Turkey, Dost Publications, 1989, p. 26
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