Bahtiyar Hidayet, Poem
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MAY I NOT HAVE A NIGHT WITHOUT YOU
In this ruined country,
I live like an owl.
The black nights of this country are mine,
Its black days are mine.
My eyes are deep red,
But this time not from anger.
Since I saw you,
My eyes have reddened from emotion and passion.
May I not have a night without you.
You call your fate dark,
I do not want our fate
To turn white from the roots like
the trees in the city's exotic park,
I do not want our fate
To turn white from the top like
the mountains under the enemy's boots.
If the black nights are ours,
May I not have a night without you.
I am not someone who accepts death easily.
There is no water on my face.
Neither hunger killed me,
Nor exile, nor police torture,
Nor the damp prison wall crying for freedom.
Kiss me, kiss me, so that my face may be soaked with water.
May I not have a night without you.
My mind does not forget the oppression
and suffering my eyes have seen.
To forget this, I want to see you like the naked truth.
I am tired of lies dressed in the clothes of truth.
May eyes not see what my eyes have seen.
Be my naked truth,
May I not have a night without you.
I am very tired, very.
From the shouting in the stands,
From the screams in the squares.
Now these noises should be killed
By your passionate whispers.
May I not have a night without you.
I do not want, after a fake election,
To become a mute member of parliament.
I want my Jesus-breathed beloved
To kill me with her kiss
And revive me with her breath.
May I remain speechless before this miracle.
Come, come, let the smell of your sweat spread like perfume.
Beautiful one whose chest is the gate of heaven,
May I not have a night without you.
I shed sweat of shame,
Because after every election I shed sweat of shame.
Now your sweat-scented body Should make me faint...
I too have secretly slept while on guard duty for the homeland,
There on the ground.
But now is not the time to sleep,
Let me forget the homeland and politics too...
Now is the time for betrayal. Come,
May I not have a night without you.
May I not have a night without you.
