LEYLA IŞIK

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