Özgürlük [English translation]

At school I write your name in my notebook, on my desk and on trees

I write your name on read sheets and on empty pages

On gilded images, guns and the crowns of kings

I write your name on the best of nights and on the fresh bread of the day

On fields and horizons and on the wings of birds

I write it on a mill in the shadow,

On a woken up path and on an outstretched road

On jam-packed squares I write your name, oh freedom.

I write it on my doorstep, on my pots and pans and on the fire inside me [icimdeki aleve]

I write your name on shining glass [camlarin oyununa] and on woken lips,

On my torn down houses, on my extinct lanterns and on the walls of my sorrows

I write your name on my unfulfilled desire and on my naked loneliness

On returned health and on every danger that is over

I write your name.

By the enthusiasm of one word I am revived

I was born for you, for shouting out

Oh freedom!