Dolanı Dolanı [English translation]

It comes wandering around

Death, slowly, slowly

Pick a pen and write my sorrow down

My rose, slowly, slowly

My fire doesn't go off for a moment,

Love has become my homeland

My spring passed by like a fall

And my flood, slowly, slowly

My poor heart wriggles all the time now

My eyes don't see far anymore

My hands started to be

of no use, slowly, slowly

My loved one doesn't look this way

Does not move her eyebrows and eyelashes

My wings are broken and my arm

won't move slowly, slowly

You cannot trust in this world

Blood doesn't stop until you die

Oh, Mesleki1 the cruelty

will rise and not diminish, slowly, slowly

1. the poet of this poem, it is a tradition for the poet to mention his name (or nickname, mostly) in the last part of the poem as a signature.