Are You Still Alive?
(August 1937 / Varlık, May 1, 1952)
As you tried to tie the tail
Of the devil kite we made together,
I could see your tiny heart flutter.
It never even crossed my mind
To tell you what I felt for you.
I wonder -
Are you still alive?
The Sicilian Fisherman
(August 1937 / Gençlik, May 15, 1938)
A hundred years from now,
When not a single soul remains from today's world,
A fisherman living on the shores of Sicily,
One summer morning as he casts his nets into the sea,
Will look up at a sky broader than ours today
And hum one of my verses -
As a song,
Never knowing