MY MOM IS GOING TO GIVE BIRTH TO A CLIFF

alone like this, it is better this way

like reading a story all over again

like starting to deal with the sea

a sea you have never been

like starting and reading all over again

deep-seated words

 

give me one ax, one

knife to cut the water into halves and suffocate

all the stories I know about

 

mute like this, it is better this way

if I die, it would be known like this, I am here

the doors are locked behind me

which one is the dirty handkerchief, the body or the soul?

 

give me an ax, one

knife to let the cliff inside me be with the wind

 

I said the cliff, and a handful of sand

of which I cannot let any wind to take

 

am I fine, am I fine, fine

its start and end are known

I am fictionalizing the universe

by placing the words

onto the broken chair of life

 

alone like this, silent like this, it is better

if only I could bury the words…

 

give me an ax, one

knife, my mom is going to give birth to a cliff if I ever speak out

 

English Translation by Mesut Şenol

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