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Aşık Veysel (1894-1975)
Let Friends remember me I go and my name stays Let friends remember me A wedding a holiday Let friends remember me
The soul does not in a cage it flies away The world is caravanserai where one settles then moves off The moon goes round years pass Let friends remember me
The soul will depart from the body The chimney does not smoke and the fire does not burn Let there be armfuls of salaams Let friends remember me
I would neither have come nor gone Day by day my troubles mounted up My place and my village stay desolate Let friends remember me
All sorts of flowers blossom and die Who has laughed and who will laugh? Happiness is a die and death a truth Let friends remember me
It’s afternoon then the evening comes See what happens to one Veysel goes, his name stays Let friends remember me (Translated by Richard McKane, 101Poems by 101Poets An Anthology of Turkish Poetry) |
