my brethren <br />i cannot say properly <br /> <br />what I want to say to you <br />even not express myself for you sufficiently <br />excuse me my cancas.. my brothers excuse me <br />i am a little bit drunk <br />my head turns dizzily a little bit <br />not from the booze <br />not from drinking our turkish rakii <br />a little bit from hunger <br />oh my brethren <br />in europe..in asia..in america..in australia..in the poles <br />i am not like in hunger strike in the gaol <br />i feel like lying on the green moors <br />on this month may in the evenings <br />and your eyes bright and brilliant <br />shining beside my head <br />and your hands are united <br />act as if only one hand tenderly <br />like my mother hand <br />like my beloved hand <br />like my compatriot mehmet hand <br />oh my brethren <br />you never have left me alone <br />up to this time <br /> <br />and also my country and my people too <br />you love mine <br />as much as I love yours <br />long live my brethren <br />for all those <br />i thank you all <br />my brethren know that <br />I have no intention to die nowadays <br />I will be in the verses of ARAGON <br />which describe the coming beautiful days <br />and I will be in the wings of WHITE PIGEON of PICASSO <br />and I will live in the country songs of ROBESON <br />but he main thing is that <br />and the most beautiful thing is that <br />I will be in the prosperous smiles <br />of my comrade dock labourers of MARSEILLES <br />my brethren <br />I am really very happy <br />in fully gallop <br />galloping with you <br /> <br />Nazim HIKMET <br /> <br />Translation Metin SAHIN<br /><br />Metin Sahin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-fifth-day-of-the-hunger-str-ke/
