B E L O V E D It is gulp of the soil From me to ground My love is the escape Of my core to the earth Nature asks you to love For you to blossom Let you bow down when you see the beloved Let your nape bend strongly You should know to stand erect as you bend What moves you up to the heavens The face you see in the sky Is that the game of the clouds Or a trick of the stars Always loving And ascending too With the news of a loneliness My self flies And fades In the colorless horizon Translated from the Turkish by sukru kaya