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I already read it, but I don´t believe it´s accurate.
These lyrics are from a poem of Ercişli /Erzurumlu Emrah who lived in around 17th century in eastern Anatolia.[ Ercis –a town of Van, /according to other researchers Erzurum]
This is a love story , According to one of the story, during Ottoman-Iran wars, Emrah’s lover Selvihan is captured by Iranian soldiers, and she is taken Iran as a captive. Emrah goes after her for years and years and he had suffered bitterly while looking for her. Since then, in that region and in other regions , many stories and poems were told reffering his sufferings of love and pain while he was looking for her.
So, if we look at this lyrics in the light of the story above, we will see the pain and sufferings of him.
I would translate it as follows:
If only I was a poor traveler wearing black,
I lost my delicate lover,
if only I could find her searching ..and searching
I wish I could fetch my love,
leaving her land in flame,
If only this piteous sorrow of mine
would find a cure…a cure..
If only the distances were close
and in all women had I right
If only my love were Lokman Hekim
healing the [my] wounds…the [my] wounds
* Lokman Hekim is a mytich person in history, he was believed to have power to cure all ilnesses.
According to some strories, he found the formula of immortality. But while he was passing a bridge , unluckly he lost it by dropping that bottle of immortality from the bridge.
Edited (10/3/2014) by tunci
Edited (10/3/2014) by tunci
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