East

Your soul implanted itself east

Years before we were born 

But then that

New land forlorn

Gravel became concrete, 

Chalk became screen feed

Tilted head, you're confused

People wheezing past you, your heavy feet

You must go,

This air has a suffocating sweetness

An overdose on lotus for sustenance

But the other day from your window 

when you saw that woman on her knees

And at work that man, his broken accent

You realized that you'd starved yourself for seven ages

Could no longer hold your rope, could barely stand on your knees

The crime of a fish in the desert

A man in the sea

Oh, how I love the sea

But you ran out the glass doors you said 

that you were not a fish and

WHAT I'D KILL FOR TOPRAK ON MY BARE FEET

KARA TOPRAK DEDIM ÖLDÜM DEDIM

Dost dost diye NİCESİNE SARILDIM

KARA TOPRAK BULDUM SARILDIM

RUHUM! 

DEDİM

SANA KARA TOPRAK BULDUM DEDİM

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