On Living II (Yaşamaya Dair II) by Nazım Hikmet

Yaşamaya Dair II	On Living II
Diyelim ki, ağır ameliyatlık hastayız, yani, beyaz masadan, bir daha kalkmamak ihtimali de var. Duymamak mümkün değilse de biraz erken gitmenin kederini biz yine de güleceğiz anlatılan Bektaşi fıkrasına, hava yağmurlu mu, diye bakacağız pencereden, yahut da sabırsızlıkla bekleyeceğiz en son ajans haberlerini. Diyelim ki, dövüşülmeye deşer bir şeyler için, diyelim ki, cephedeyiz. Daha orda ilk hücumda, daha o gün yüzükoyun kapaklanıp ölmek de mümkün. Tuhaf bir hınçla bileceğiz bunu, fakat yine de çıldırasıya merak edeceğiz belki yıllarca sürecek olan savaşın sonunu. Diyelim ki hapisteyiz, yaşımız da elliye yakın, daha da on sekiz sene olsun açılmasına demir kapının. Yine de dışarıyla birlikte yaşayacağız, insanları, hayvanları, kavgası ve rüzgarıyla yani, duvarın ardındaki dışarıyla. Yani, nasıl ve nerede olursak olalım hiç ölünmeyecekmiş gibi yaşanacak...	Let's say you're seriously ill, need surgery - which is to say we might not get from the white table. Even though it's impossible not to feel sad about going a little too soon, we'll still laugh at the jokes being told, we'll look out the window to see it's raining, or still wait anxiously for the latest newscast ... Let's say we're at the front- for something worth fighting for, say. There, in the first offensive, on that very day, we might fall on our face, dead. We'll know this with a curious anger, but we'll still worry ourselves to death about the outcome of the war, which could last years. Let's say we're in prison and close to fifty, and we have eighteen more years, say, before the iron doors will open. We'll still live with the outside, with its people and animals, struggle and wind- I mean with the outside beyond the walls. I mean, however and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

Yaşamaya Dair II

On Living II

Diyelim ki, ağır ameliyatlık hastayız,
yani, beyaz masadan,
bir daha kalkmamak ihtimali de var.
Duymamak mümkün değilse de biraz erken gitmenin kederini biz yine de güleceğiz anlatılan Bektaşi fıkrasına,
hava yağmurlu mu, diye bakacağız pencereden,
yahut da sabırsızlıkla bekleyeceğiz
en son ajans haberlerini.
Diyelim ki, dövüşülmeye deşer bir şeyler için,
diyelim ki, cephedeyiz.
Daha orda ilk hücumda, daha o gün
yüzükoyun kapaklanıp ölmek de mümkün.
Tuhaf bir hınçla bileceğiz bunu,
fakat yine de çıldırasıya merak edeceğiz
belki yıllarca sürecek olan savaşın sonunu.
Diyelim ki hapisteyiz,
yaşımız da elliye yakın,
daha da on sekiz sene olsun açılmasına demir kapının.
Yine de dışarıyla birlikte yaşayacağız,
insanları, hayvanları, kavgası ve rüzgarıyla
yani, duvarın ardındaki dışarıyla.
Yani, nasıl ve nerede olursak olalım
hiç ölünmeyecekmiş gibi yaşanacak...

Let's say you're seriously ill, need surgery -
which is to say we might not get
from the white table.
Even though it's impossible not to feel sad
about going a little too soon,
we'll still laugh at the jokes being told,
we'll look out the window to see it's raining,
or still wait anxiously
for the latest newscast ...
Let's say we're at the front-
for something worth fighting for, say.
There, in the first offensive, on that very day,
we might fall on our face, dead.
We'll know this with a curious anger,
but we'll still worry ourselves to death
about the outcome of the war, which could last years.
Let's say we're in prison
and close to fifty,
and we have eighteen more years, say,
before the iron doors will open.
We'll still live with the outside,
with its people and animals, struggle and wind-
I mean with the outside beyond the walls.
I mean, however and wherever we are,
we must live as if we will never die.

Nazım Hikmet
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