FIND ME ISTANBUL

Though we spoke only once

It was endless,

It was like replacing the day with night

We spoke before

until deaths die

until the rest finishes.

That is only reason for keeping

A last cigarette

A last song

The memory which collapsed with morning…

Loneliness was for two people before

Transformed into lonely silence in The Bosporus

Where are your waves?

Did the poem of night escape?

Did yours escape from my heart?

The tree had forgotten my melody which I hid it inside

Though we saw the night when we were children

Melancholia had been seen

We were the witnesses.

We cried for the past without knowing

It had never passed

Fog was in our eyes.

And we were yelling

“We were alone in crowded areas”

Daggers were stabbed in our hearts.

Time to be waterless for reticence

Giants should stay in fairytales now.

Tomorrow comes together with its darling

It is called yesterday.

Love had gone with a knife wound

There was pain

So,

My whiskey smells like Istanbul darling

If I am drunk

 I am drunk for a reason

Unfortunately I have been an Istanbuller, darling

I didn’t expected it.

You…

Your lies are the reasons for my love

I paid all my innocents cash

For you

Istanbul!

People aspire to lie on your body

I Didn’t know

I should pay cash

A city called Istanbul

Which was sooty

Let me out from your soot

Say that she is not Istanbul

Only I am!

This poem is translated from "Bul beni İstanbul"