I Want to Know People

Take me there,
guide me with your hands
to the moment when familiar sorrows
babble
in deserted streets.
I want to know people.
Before shadows cover,
and smoke surrounds my eyes,
I want to know people.

People of a forgotten city
are about to be buried
in darkness.
Do not remain there!
Wake up the stars...

Take me there,
guide me with your hands,
I want to know people.

© Üzeyir Çayci
Traduit par by Yakup YURT en français
French free verse translated into English free verse
by Joneve McCormick  - 2002