CONDITIONAL LOVE

For Küçük Oya, Saliha Yiğit, and Canan

 

As if dying of love is too easy

Time and matter do fly in space as it were

Inside a moment

The teeth of my dreams

Would whimper for their trouble

The lines are drenched in blood

The mirrors would draw a circle

As if in front of my eyes

It would be in vain for a fool lover

Inside life

If only the door would be knocked

Would it be opened then

For that honorable wise man

There were melancholic girls on the street

Whomever would console them

There would be too much oddity and disregard

Inside the ocean

Half-witted lovers would rejoice

A freak of nature would be born

Beyond the tulle curtain

Music would overflow from the heart of the free man

In a close embrace while bidding farewell already

Love is between hawk and buzzard

Quantum rules work at the revolving door

Would god help us

I wonder (rightfully so) one would pose a question

What is the conditional love

Farewell, adieu my love, we hit the rocks

As if we became noncompliant

Oh my God I am so much starved

I fell in unconditional love

AS IF I missed freedom…

 

English Translation by Mesut Şenol

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