HASAN ILDIZ

IF THE ISSUE IS A DRAW

If the issue is a draw We are together We are in the chaos of this world. In the same country of the same world If the issue is a draw We are together. Luckily there is such a thing as painting I touch your hair And my fingertips are getting warmer Your eyes talk for a long time every night I make sure every night I caress your breasts. Time has no description If I know you, I know you in the same city as you looking at the same sky Smelling the same lilac on the same street If the issue is a draw We are together. The river passing by you It starts from the mountain where I was born Think about how close we are to each other Our feet touch the same water…

THE FOOT SOUND OF THE RAIN

Behind me is a rain spooky footsteps I’m going through dark emotions I want to provoke the streets again From the foot of this city I want to ignite it. My poet, I’m picking at the wounds of my country To the poem I wrote I add some dynamite, some C4, meaning of words Every street I pass Suddenly I explode. Here I am leaking To the battlements again I hear these sirens I know, wait a minute Behind me is a rain spooky footsteps I know it’s a reverse method Waking up a city with noise at night Always living close to love and death To smear your blood on the forehead of life. I’m going through dark emotions I’m trying those old ways again I’m drowning conciliatory ideas one by one I’m holding the city by the crotch out of spite While making love out of spite I choose sharp verbs.

THOUGHTS

This is where you will enter, doctor. From the innermost petal of the rose You will take away that evil feeling You will clean that bad temper Doctor, don’t let your hands shake. What kind of knives did I eat? Say that you are at the best place in your profession. As if I came to you on your happiest day. You didn’t see Alya, doctor. I’m sure if you saw it you would spill it like coffee A clot in your brain You would be sweating profusely. Have you ever smoked cannabis, doctor? From a poor neighborhood Did you pass by on foot? Oh if you only knew doctor Oh if you only knew This is what indifference is like In a lifetime of internal bleeding location never known.

SAY SOMETHING

say something Let me hold on even if it’s a promise Let me forget the hallucinations I see, even if it’s just a word This is what I see What darkness is this city? Who did he spend the morning with tonight? Who got out of bed? say a word End the ethnic fights, my blood It flowed to the mountains, only Oh my God, it’s endless I left to white Am I a hero now? Who cares, I kill That boy with rainy eyes Who cares? Only you It’s like you’re a ticking time bomb on the wall of my brain, only you You’re drawing tick-tock in a setting I don’t know. They took our minds as we went to the city We undressed at the door to fight those big fights Those graffiti, yeah Those big words of our fight It was not remembered again.

COME ON BACK

It’s not that far Leave the world and come Need to be kissed to pick grapes Of course, making love. You are already full Your face is full, your eyes are full And don’t burden the separation In this cold evening Who rubs your fingertips? Who do you go to in this situation… Are you doing it right now? Is it true that you will take the first train that arrives? Which love happened without a fight? Say it without fighting Who left his land? Just because the wind broke your heart Because the sky became dark and hazy Is there any flower that gets angry with its mountain? It’s not that far Use the water as an excuse Remember the smell of the soil halfway Remember the sound of birds on the windowsill Think of an evening when you sit You read a poem from me To the children returning home.