Living

 I

I know, living is not easy,
Falling in love, singing ballads for it;
Wandering under shiny stars at nights,
To get warm at days with sunlight;
To spare a half-day,
And take a break on Çamlıca Hill…
-Thousand tones of blues flow through Bosphorus-
To forget everything among blues.

II

I know, living is not easy;
But
Some dead man’s bed is still warm
Another has a clock ticking in his arm
Living is not easy brother,
Nor is death;
It is not easy to leave this world.

Orhan Veli

Translated by: Doğa Aslan

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