BURY ME DEEP INSIDE THEIR HEART

The broken twigs inside me as green as grass

Dry leaves speed up in a mood of relentless

Where they are at the mercy of gently blowing gust

Scattered like snow flakes

A winter night, a wolf’s night, a jackal’s howling

Questioning me because of the bomb fallen on my heart

Checking up on me for everything that has nothing to do with me

Stabbed in the middle of my heart

 

Wolf’s howling, jackal’s cries

The threat of the bandits, a thunder

The quilt I cover my head with fear

I missed you a lot

Bury me in the wolf’s howling, in the jackal’s cries

In the flood water, in the dawn break

Beneath the lonely tree on the hillside

Inside the heart of my sons, in the deepest of their heart

Bury me there, bury me there

They may water and grow flowers

They may rub their faces on my wounds

Bury me deep inside the heart of my missing sons

 

Deep inside the heart of my sons who went missing in the dark

 

English Translation by Mesut Şenol

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