Monday, October 09, 2006

because it's so desperately needed

İyimserlik

Şiirler yazarım
basılmaz
basılacaklar ama

Bir mektup beklerim müjdeli
belki de öldüğüm gün gelir
mutlaka gelir ama

Ne devlet ne para
insanın emrinde dünya
belki yüz yıl sonra
olsun
mutlaka bu böyle olacak ama

Optimism

I write poems
they don't get published
but they will

I'm awaiting a letter with joyful tidings
perhaps it will come on the day I die
but it will surely come

Neither the state nor money
but people will rule the world
perhaps it will take a hundred years
but it will surely be


-Nazim Hikmet, 1957

(translation: mine, though doubtless influenced by the memory of others)

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