DIRANAS, AHMET MUHIP1

YOU AND THE SKY

You and the sky are my only beloveds.All the rest lie beyond the seas.My sky with its nights and days,You my beloved with your love and gaiety;You’re holding hands calmly and in harmony,Embellishing my life with joys,Making me serene at the shore of an evening.As I live these happy moments,I even forget to breathe,As though I am eternal!And that sky above us,Is so blue and so endless.That sky is so real;That big, big, big, giant flower.

1 Ahmet Muhip Dıranas (1909-1980) was an important lyric poet.