You, I and Our Son (poetry)

You, I and Our Son

Sometimes I feel I get bored

Since I feel that we read and write in vain

Who is reading what we write anyway?

You, I and our son.

There is an increase in the number of publishing houses.

A higher number of books are getting published, that is true.

Yes, more books, but who is reading them anyway?

You, I and our son.

We have sore throat, almost muted as we shouted a lot.

Yes that is true, whatever we do is true.

But tell me, who would ever hear our voice?!

You, I and our son.

You see, again and again, we are left alone

When the barrels are pointed on us.

Those who complained a lot, where are they? Who are backing us?

You, I and our son.

If I wouldn’t believe in class struggle,

With all this tone of pessimism,

I would end my life, as well as yours.

But I know that from an historical perspective,

You, I and a whole world is behind us, backing us.

Ulaş Başar Gezgin

2017

Gezgin, U.B. (2017). You, I and Our Son - Poems of Peace, Longing and Love from Vietnam

POETRY BOOKS IN ENGLISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES / İNGİLİZCE VE DİĞER DİLLERDE ŞİİR KİTAPLARI 1. Gezgin, U.B. (2017). Yağmur Sonrası/ After Rain / После дождя / Diğer Dillerdeki Gezgin Şiirleri: Rusça, İngilizce, Tayca, Azerbaycanca, Vietnamca, İspanyolca ve Japonca [Gezgin’s Poetry in Other Languages: Russian, English, Thai, Azerbaijani, Vietnamese, Spanish and Japanese]. 2. Gezgin, U.B. (2017). You, I and Our Son - Poems of Peace, Longing and Love from Vietnam 3. Gezgin, U.B. (2017). For Those Who Will Sail Across The Oceans: An Explorer’s Vietnam Poems. 4. Gezgin, U. B. (2007). On a Tablet – English Poems by Ulas Basar Gezgin. Lulu.