LEYLA IŞIK
FREE OUT OF SPITE
How
free you are,
Free
out of spite.
I
could not yet break
The
iron bars inside of me.
I'm
enslaved by love,
Perhaps
by fear.
I’ve
wrapped myself in lonelinesses.
How
free you are,
Free
out of spite
In
that endless blueness of the sky.
I
could not yet unlock
The
fetters inside of me.
Whenever
I felt love
I
wrapped myself in lonelinesses.
The
sunlight abandoned me
In
the dump wells,
And
went away.
Unable
to leave lonelinesses,
I
could not tell time to stop,
Time
that races against wind.
The
hopes rusted and faded inside me.
Oh!
You don’t know how I miss
Becoming
free like you,
Free
out of spite,
Eluding
fear
And
leaving lonelinesses in the dump wells . . .
TRANSLATED BY BAKI YIĞIT
LEYLA IŞIK
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