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Nazim Hikmet

(1902, Salonica - June 3, 1963, Moscow)

 
KARIMA MEKTUP

                                      11-11-1933
                                     Bursa   Hapisanesi  
Bir tanem!
Son mektubunda:
"Basim sizliyor
                         yüregim sersem!"
                                            diyorsun.
"Seni asarlarsa
                 seni kaybedersem;"
                                 diyorsun;
                                         "yasiyamam!"
Yasarsin karicigim,
kara bir duman gibi dagilir hatiram rüzgarda; yasarsin kalbimin
kizil saçli bacisi
en fazla bir yil sürer
                 yirminci asirlilarda
                                  ölüm acisi.
Ölüm
bir ipte sallanan bir ölü.
Bu ölüme bir türlü
                      razi olmuyor gönlüm.
Fakat
emin ol ki sevgilim;
zavalli bir çingenenin
                   killi, siyah bir örümcege benzeyen eli
                                                     gecirecekse eger
                                                             ipi bogazima,
mavi gözlerimde korkuyu görmek için
                                       bosuna bakacaklar
                                                      Nazima!

Ben,
alaca karanliginda son sabahimin
dostlarimi ve seni görecegim,
ve yalniz
yari kalmis bir sarkinin acisini
                                         topraga götürecegim...

Karim benim!
Iyi yürekli
altin renkli,
gözleri baldan tatli arim benim:
ne diye yazdim sana
                   istendigini idamimin,
daha dava ilk adiminda
ve bir salgam gibi koparmiyorlar
                           kellesini adamin.

Haydi bunlara bos ver.
Bunlar uzak bir ihtimal.
Paran varsa eger
         bana fanila bir don al,
tuttu bacagimin siyatik agrisi,
Ve unutma ki
daima iyi seyler düsünmeli
                     bir mahbusun karisi.

Nazim Hikmet
LETTER TO MY WIFE
				11-11-1933
		              Bursa Prison
My one and only!
Your last letter says:
``My head is throbbing,
	       my heart is stunned!''
You say:
``If they hang you,
	   if I lose you,
		     I'll die!''

You'll live, my dear-
my memory will vanish like black smoke in the wind.
Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart:
in the twentieth century
		    grief lasts
			 at most a year.

Death-
a body swinging from a rope.
My heart
	 can't accept such a death.
But
you can bet
     if some poor gypsy's hairy black
	       spidery hand
		  slips a noose
		      around my neck,
they'll look in vain for fear
		      in Nazim's
			  blue eyes!

In the twilight of my last morning
I
will see my friends and you,
and I'll go
to my grave
	    regretting nothing but an unfinished song...
My wife!
Good-hearted,
golden,
eyes sweeter than honey-my bee!
Why did I write you
		   they want to hang me?
The trial has hardly begun,
and they don't just pluck a man's head
			     like a turnip.
Look, forget all this.
If you have any money,
	       buy me some flannel underwear:
my sciatica is acting up again.
And don't forget,
a prisoner's wife
	       must always think good thoughts.

			      Nazim Hikmet