WOE TO YOUR ABSENCE (poetry)

WOE TO YOUR ABSENCE

A train is leaving the station

People are greeting their friends..

You are absent..

You are absent and moves all the world, all the time, all the stars..

I see only my vision on dark windows..

You are absent..

The world has a rhythm, the train has one, the seas, the ants, the machines..

They don’t perverse.. No confusion in rotation.. Everything is proper..

You are absent..

A train should leave the station

If folks are greeting their relatives..

If you’re absent..

If you’re absent, anything existent should move, initially very slowly, invisible at the end..

I meet your vision before my eyes..

But you’re absent..

Life should have a meaning, a reason to live, like a reason to die..

Stone Age men would not bother, nevertheless..

You are absent..

A train will leave a distant station..

Nobody will come to greet me..

You won’t be absent..

You won’t be absent and each second and each mile will consume themselves for our reunion..

They won’t complain a lot.. They will have a mission..

You won’t be absent..

Only then the world will get a rhythm; the life, meaning; the sky, stars; the seas, fish..

Poor children will not cry then, grandmothers will be glad..

But now you are absent..

What a revolutionary absence you have..

What a stabilising presence..

Ulaş Başar Gezgin

06.06.2002/On the Ankara train

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

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