Askerler dönüyor ihtiyar askerler,
Sulhun mavi daglarindan.
Kalbimize nekadar asina
Adimlarinda kalan.

Türküler dönüyor nurdan türküler
Kagni arabalarindan söylenmisti.
Karsi bahçeler ki ayna midir
Nasibi devreder simdi.

Kuslar dönüyor sadik kuslar,
Bahar için degil, saçaklarimiz için.
Dönen mesafesiyle var oluruz
Mevsimler arkasi güzelligin.

Gemiler dönüyor garip ve zengin.
Garip ve sonsuz sular üzerinde.
Gemilerle beraber gelen sey
Aydinliklar gibi yüzer, derinde.

ve bunlar degil de ey gecem,
Sen dönüyorsun ellerime, sen.
Aska ve hayata dönüyorum
Topragin bütün ölülerinden

Soldiers are returning, aged soldiers
From the blue hills of peace.
How intimate within our hearts
What their steps would not release...

Songs are returning, songs of light
Sung on hulky ox carts.
Are the gardens across a mirror
Some new destiny that starts?

Birds are returning, loyal birds,
For our eaves, not for the sake of spring.
We come alive in the whirling distance
And the beauty that the seasons bring.

Ships are returning, strange and opulent,
Sailing the strange and endless seas.
In the depths, like beams of light,
The cargo of the ships tarries.

Unlike any of these, my night,
You, you are returning into my hands.
I am returning to love and life
From the dead of all the lands.