Şu Yalan Dünyaya [English translation]

Since I came to that fake world

I have drunk a basinful of poison while alive

Cruel fate does not let me attain my desire

I was wrecked when I was a vineyard of purple hyacinth

They sought and found in solitude

They leaned and broke my branches

They gave a fire in this summer and spring

I burned when I was a snowy mountain

Karacaoğlan 1 says: “look at the bride”

Half of my life is gone to pillage

Inquire whoever comes before us

Who was there when we weren’t here?

1. was a 17th-century Ottoman Turkish folk poet