Life Is Beautiful When One Loves — Ömer Sevinçgül

I used to search for stars in the dark and the fig trees would smile And there was a bat at our door on its nightwatch When God knows when it was Maybe I was a child I used to keep silent my silence was a poem You used to look at me from a distance in a way that caused pain Your eyes were dark I would embroider a rose onto the frame I held in my hands Because the age of love back then was a whole lifetime When God knows when it was life was spring and maybe I was just a child I forgot to live as I grew up The book of warmness and full of life stories of the young of colourful lives loves that never wear away of years smelling like strawberries and small joys Youth only touches upon a person once throughout a lifetime And life is beautiful when one loves ________________________________________ Ben yıldız yoklardım karanlıkta incir ağaçları gülümserdi Ve bir yarasa kapımızda gece nöbetindeydi Zaman kim bilir ne zamandı Hatta belki çocuktum Susardım sessizliğim şiirdi Sen öyle uzaktan acıta acıta bakardın bana Gözlerin kömür kömürdü Elimdeki gergefe gül işlerdim ben Çünkü aşkın yaşı o zamanlar bir ömürdü Zaman kim bilir ne zamandı hayat bahardı hatta belki çocuktum Büyüdükçe yaşamayı unuttum Sıcacık hayat dolu gençlik öyküleriyle rengârenk yaşamların eskimeyen sevdaların çilek kokulu yılların ve küçük mutlulukların kitabı Gençlik insanın başına hayatta bir kere gelir Ve hayat sevince güzeldir