OZDEMIR ASAF
WOMEN
I love you all so much.
You, you are the mothers of so many nations.
You give birth to children for fun.
Without ever thinking
That one day they will become soldiers
And face to face will kill one another...
That they will become celebrities...
That they will become geniuses...
That they will become chiefs...
You give birth to children
To love them, to love them all over again.
All of you, of all ages
I love every single part of you.
I just want to look at you all and hear you all
'Cause to love you all, to caress you all
all at once
is not possible.
They make paintings
They write poems...
They compose notes for you.
They play the saz
They drink, they get drunk.
For you.
For you only...
CAT WAS ITS NAME
Nobody
Gave its name
They called, it was deaf, it did not hear
The murmuring of a cat
Is both its thinking
And
Its hearing
I'm writing
This
Which is
My murmuring
One who hears
Won't write this
Wake up
It's a cat who wrote this.
translated by Ayse Banu Karadag