Rose

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ROSE
Seated at the core of the rose I weep As I die in the street each night Ahead and beyond all unmindful Pang upon pang of dark diminution Of eyes upheld blissful with life Your hands are in my caress into dusk Hands forever white forever white Cast into my soul icicles of fright A train a while at the station A man who lost the station to me On my face I rub the rose Fallen forlorn over the pavement And cut my body limb by limb Bloodgush doomsday madmusic On the horn a gypsy is reborn Cemal Sureya Translated by Talat Sait Halman