Korktum Deseydin [English translation]

If you had said that you were afraid, I would have understood.

That you mocked me was not funny.

If you had been capable of loving, parting would have been beautiful, a cleansing for us.

You turning away after being so close froze my inside.

We could not begin!

If you had given true appreciation, I would have been broken.

Now I am simply sad.

Anyway I was left without a voice.

My desires were without a tongue.

Still my state of mind could not be seen in my behaviour.

Maybe you wanted a little game.

I would take the games to be serious, too.

I would not stop being defeated,

I could not play!

I grew tired of being played.

My mother would say to me, you are not a woman,

you are the girl I gave birth to.

Yes mother, I could not become anyone's woman!

I am still your girl, and also my father's ...