THEY WON'T KNOW



What will I leave for the people left behind,

For my children,

For their children too?

More or less

My shared piece From Black Sea...

Five or ten acres of land from sky.

The things I want to give them when I was alive,

The things I couldn't give, fleeings, hidings caused.

I know for that reason

They wan't feel my absence,

It will be like I'm always alive for them

From a distance, a bit further.

They will say our father, our grandfather, never stayed still, 

He never knew what trouble was, what worry was...

They won't know what I knew.

Rýfat ILGAZ

Translated by Ender MACUN