ME, ANNELI AND THE NARGILE (Poetry)

ME, ANNELI AND THE NARGILE

-To the memory of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and his Rita-

The fact is hard to admit:

There is a water pipe between us...

When I take a deep breath,

I see what Anneli does...

The train moves slowly, hardly...

Taking another breath and not letting out...

Now she’s just inside me,

Union of water pipe, me, and Anneli...

I see the bubbles on the water side,

Nobody sees what happens in me,

She’s dancing while singing something

Why am I the only one to see?..

No, no, it’s OK, noone should see her,

Except my eyes which I can’t spare...

It’s just a blow of mystery,

That is flowing from her blond hair...

I sometimes think she would disappear,

In the labyrinths of my inner sphere,

In contrast, on some other days,

I scare of losing myself in her...

That’s the way my story goes,

That smell knows no limit...

Where she lives now who knows,

If she doesn’t wander in my spirit?..

Between me and Anneli -that’s true-

There is a water pipe still hot, fresh...

If she takes a single sip by the pipe,

Maybe she would come here -soul, bond and flesh-

The name she has forgotten was my name, ‘Uli’...

The name I couldn’t forget is hers -‘Anneli’...

05.05.2002/ Ankara, on the Istanbul train

Gezgin, U. B. (2007). On a Tablet – English Poems by Ulas Basar Gezgin. Lulu.

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