i had a day far away from you today
in your absence, i wasn’t acting naturally
i blended with downhearted people
i just competed with them in misery
i teased everybody including me
i did not compromise with myself and others
i just noticed your image as i was turning the corner
i ran after you but i was late in catching you
i bought a white violet from the florist
as i was thinking of you, in the whiteness, i was lost
i ordered a glass of some bitter tea
in order to have it accompany my deepest melancholy
i have read all day long Turgut Uyar
i weaved a poem from the orphaned words
whatever i threw, they did not fill my day
your absence brought out the death of time
it did drank in one gulp my joy of being without you
my day without you passed by like a life time
English Translation by Mesut Şenol