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Because of You - Turkish Poet Nazim Hikmet
Because of you, each day is a slice of melon slice
smelling sweetly of from the earth.
Because of you, all fruits reach out to me
as if I were the sun.
Thanks to you, I live on the honey of hope.
You are the reason my heart beats.
Because of you, even my loneliest nights
smile like an Anatolian Kilim1 on your wall.
Should my journey end before I reach my city,
I've rested in a rose garden; thanks to you.
Because of you I don't let not death enter,
clothed in the softest garments,
and who come knocking on my door with songs
calling serenading me to the greatest place.
29 August 1960
Very nice.
1. When including uncommon foreign terms, it is best to give footnotes.
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