Hasret-1 [English translation]

Its been a Century not seeing your face,

not wrapping around your waist,

not resting in your eye,

not asking questions to the brightness of your wisdom,

not touching the warmth of your abdomen.

For a Century waits for me

a woman in one city.

We were on the same branch of a tree, on the same branch.

We fell off the same branch and were torn apart.

Between us, a Century of time,

a road of a Century.

Its been a Century in the twilight

that I have been running after her.

• Artist:Nâzım Hikmet