THIS IS MY DREAM

Through the disillusioned gusts blowing in an evening

By holding on to the gray branch of a leaning cloud

I shall be migrating to a land of never-dying.

I shall get to a land where children are grown

Where animals are never treated cruelly

Where nests of birds are never burnt, the forests never incinerated

I shall be migrating to a land where its nature is not destroyed

Where babies freely run and play, where there are no child brides

Where defenseless people are not attacked

Where desperate women are not murdered, where there are no bans

Where the freedom of walking alone is enjoyed

In the light of stars during the dark nights

I will migrate to a place where the sun is lovingly to rise

At the break of dawn without a shame and with pride

I shall migrate to a destination where there are no crimes

No harassment, no rapes have to be experienced

Where nor probates can survive, where justice is served according to conscience

Where there is no wrong-doings

I shall migrate to a place where in its green, purple and grey hills’ forests

Where the deer and gazelles living and running freely

Where the spring trees’ branches bloom like a bride

Where the breeze blowing in the Autumn would brush our hair

As I said, this is the dream of Leyla, me

Let us fantasize together, who knows, maybe it might come true.

 

English Translation by Mesut ŞENOL

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