Children of Sorrow
Üzeyir Lokman CAYCI

They were fearful of fires
and timid before friendship.
They changed truth
in consideration of their interests.
They were not accustomed
to such things as love and friendship,
consequently they attached no importance
to courage or to speaking honestly.
Games are formed by taking part...
sales were arranged, and arrests,
due to lack of affection,
and made an integral part
of their peculiarities.
Every year in March
absurdities from the past
flow from their heart of hearts
while they clink glasses.
As sins committed were taken lightly,
one after the other faults
were left hanging
and in time became a shelter
or an obscure tunnel,
hiding wrong doing
as they wished.
Thus the years
fell down on them...
The children of sorrow
never awakened to beauty.

Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCI
Magnanville – 03.03.2001
Traduit par by Yakup YURT en français
French free verse translated into English free verse
by Joneve McCormick - 2004

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