The wind is calling me outside it's exactly the right wind to walk in the wonder
of the long avenues that enchant the air with swirling blossoms
and restrained, start singing in me with joy mixed with sorrow
for the falling, away from life, away from the leaf shoots
the swirling awareness that it is almost over however much I would have liked
to stay and respond to the call of the wind the calling wind
String Quartet (1936, Ulvi Cemal Erkin), performed on Wednesday, January 29th, 2020, by the Borusan Quartet, in the Music building on the IJ in Amsterdam