Hats Off to Madness

congratulations i'm leaving this time i'll burn the memories that remain one by one i swore an oath there's no turning back every story is the same my dear it begins and it ends

i thought it was pride but now i finally understand love knows nothing of pride

i made a mistake i said let's start over but love can never be the way it once was

where is the one who said i love you like crazy so many mornings have passed i still long for your eyes

as it drifts through me like the harvest of shattered dreams

if you're not sure of yourself don't love if you're happy without me stay that way forever

but if every night when you lie down magical dreams speak to you about me

immediately wake up from your sweet sleep because i can never sleep when i'm thinking of you

i'm not the best with my words

to meet someone new

to rebuild again

those sentences that collapsed

to explain yourself

as if for the very first time

to listen to everything

so it won’t be easy to forget

what’s my favorite movie

my favorite song, poem, poet

time’s eraser writes, draws, erases, distorts

if only it erased—it’d be kinder

like a stubborn, worn-out pen

it leaves its mark

even if i let it go

ben de özlüyom karagözlümü

the night is cold

if you’re not by my side

it’s like i already felt inside

that it’s going to end

when i looked into your eyes

lets pause and talk it all through again

but if you’re going to leave,

shoot me down and leave

we’ll just say to anyone who asks —

nor which side I’m on.

I can’t hear my own voice—