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408 · Sep 2024
Cruelty
atifaydinturanli Sep 2024
It is never the same,
When you know the cruelty.
It is never like the child before,
When you realize the impermanence.

Never again the same,
When a cloudburst in late spring,
doesn't yearn a late summer night.
When faces melt in the pool of memories,
but embalmed for what?

When purity of joy is ruined by experience,
The simplicities are damaged by learned intelligence,
When you realize the impermanence,
of anything.

It is never the same,
When you know the cruelty of time.
It is never like the child before,
When you realize the impermanence of life.
my first english poem
371 · Feb 9
I can't sleep
I cannot sleep at all
I cannot see at all
Tomorrows where we all
Don't grow after all
And keep the tender
the naive, the colorful
the warm touch of our soul
I cannot sleep at all
I do not want to fall
Into the dreams
Of my very own
To feel as to be
A child yet again
untouched by the years'
cruel call
I do not want to sleep
After all
303 · Jan 5
Faces of the past
Faces of the past...
Makes you wonder...
in the bittersweet melody of nostalgia,
makes you ponder...
What meaning does it bear,
to remember?
To remember,
The joy of sharing laughter,
The warmth of being in company
of one another?
Tell me truly,
why do I remember,
The warmth and the bliss,
I once had felt with someone,
who is now gone,
Forever?
152 · Dec 2024
Death
atifaydinturanli Dec 2024
We mourn and yearn.
That is all we can do
while the time is preserving the state of unliving,
ending,
killing everyone and everything—
As the days went by mercilessly,
I suddenly felt what I never knew I could,
daydreaming about lying inside
a coffin perhaps carved from marble,
for evermore—
beneath my moonlit headstone
standing in the damp and somber night
hinting what I once was
and that I will never return.
150 · 3d
A disappointment
Days' work vanishing into
Hauntings of what could have been
The cold truth unfolding
Only then you begin realizing
A disappointment has set sail
unto the sea of your thoughts
147 · Jan 23
Sorrow
What I felt, looking at the bleak wall
Enclosing my pain, heartache and all
Was the wry and olden heap of sorrow
Being fed by the shapeless and odorless morrow
And the evergrowing storm within
74 · Sep 2024
The rain
atifaydinturanli Sep 2024
Loneliness,
is there when no one is,
when the only presence,
is another's absence.
Loneliness is,
when even the rain isn't there,
to remind you of the passage of time,
maybe to accompany you,
to listen,
to wash away the wounds and pain.
But it isn't when loneliness is,
not even the rain,
to blend in with your silent tears.
rain
72 · Sep 2024
Apartments
atifaydinturanli Sep 2024
Waking up, I feel dread.
Strolling through, I wished I was not there.
But finally,
I arrived at my false sanctuary.
My chest, beating indifferently.

I look outside,
But I don't see.
As the ocean of my thoughts foam,
Light reflects on my eyes.
But I don't see.
I saw what awaits me:
Terror.

It should be an error,
My existence.
The cry of fear,
It is not so distant anymore.
The dawn must be close.

Anxiety, it's an old friend,
It doesn't leave me,
More loyal than ever.
Like a neverending fever...
Will it ever end?

I look outside.
I finally see,
My mind leaving me awhile.
A bitter smile,
Covers my face;
as apartments stand tall.
I realize the moment.
Why couldn't this be all?
I don't want to die.
56 · Jan 5
People
Was it always so easy?
For people to wither away,
fade away, into silhouettes:
photographs that whisper,
a long lost familiarity...

— The End —