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( It’s was night Everywhere, you were the STAR.)

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Turkish Poem

"Aşk"

Aşk yürüyüşü yürüdüğüm yerde,

Ben değilim artık, başka birisi var.

Gözlerim gördüğüm yerde, ben değilim,

Bir başka göz var karşımda, bir başka var.

Dilim konuştuğum yerde, ben değilim,

Bir başka dil var dudaklarımda, bir başka var.

Kulaklarım dinlediğim yerde, ben değilim,

Bir başka kulak var yanımda, bir başka var.

Her şey başka olmuş, her şey değişmiş,

Yalnız senin hatırın, yalnız senin için aynı:

Senin için bir yıldız düşer her gece,

Senin için bir güneş doğar her sabah.

Aşk yürüyüşü yürüdüğüm yerde,

Ben değilim artık, başka birisi var.

- by Orhan Veli Kanık

Translation:-

Love walks where I walk, I am no longer myself, there is someone else.Where my eyes see, I am not there, There is another eye in front of me, another one.

Where my tongue speaks, I am not there, Another language is on my lips, another one. Where my ears listen, I am not there, Another ear is beside me, another one.

Everything has changed, everything has transformed,

Only your memory, only for you it remains the same:

For you, a star falls every night,

For you, a sun rises every morning.

Love walks where I walk,

let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.

"There may not be, you know, as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you...if you break faith with what you know...that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that's enough. Love has never been a popular movement and no-one's ever wanted really to be free. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person, you could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide in yourself not to be."