You are my village
I have drained tears
I left my mother with you
I want to go
When we say go…
Immigration comes to mind
We used to climb to the roof without a ladder
Faster than a hawk
My child
We’ve been educated
With bullets and dead
Your lesson is anatomy
Ours is the Dead Sea=*Ölü Deniz
You should read tirelessly
Everything
You should dwell…
Prohibitions should pierce the laws
We could not wake up somehow
From lethargy
Even the history is losing the respect for the dead
A strange embarrassment
Memories standing crashed
Only our loves
Challenged the time
I look like a barricade in the middle of the green line
A part of me barbed wire
The other part of me revolts
Bullet holes in the walls
September has fallen
And our eyes are bolted
It was *Deniz
The solar eclipse
I blush to die
When the children are dead
Nowadays, kids playing war games
On computer screen
Become a hero.

© Günsel DjemalELÃœSTÃœN York Road-Waterloo 11/09/2013



*Deniz Gezmiº (27 February 1947 – 6 May 1972) was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist in Turkey in the late 1960s.[2] He was one of the founding members of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO).[1]

He was born to an inspector of primary education and syndicalist Cemil Gezmiº[3] and a primary school teacher Mukaddes Gezmiº. He was educated in various Turkish cities. He spent most of his childhood in Sivas, where his father grew up. He graduated from high school in Istanbul where he first encountered left wing ideas. Gezmiº and companions are considered by some as "Turkey's Ché Guevara and compañeros".[4]