- For Lonely Children Şiiri - Abdullah Acar

You! My resentful daisy
Hidden in nook canopies

You! My little shy violet
To a corner, cringed.

You! My coy, delicate poppy
That paints my world in red
Shivers by every touch of wind

You! The child
Whose innocent and sad looks dive away
While peers run around and play in joy
He is the one waiting at cold corners
Waiting for his little sustenance
Beside his shoe dyer box
With dirty hands
With damp eyes

He is as silent as falling rime at night
As lonely as an abandoned hut in forest
As joyless as a baby gazelle that
Lost her mother, in hopeless quest
Faded and lightless such roses
Detached from their branches

Now tell me!
You tell me the beautiful child
Has not someone loved you
Unrequited!

O! the child trembling like a wounded sparrow
The one whose smile is mired down on his lips
The one whose happiness is detainee in sadness

Who receives the debilitating fateful news
While running or playing on streets
With the news hitting him in his heart
Becomes an orphan, lonely at the second

Do not be afraid the sweetest,
Common! Wipe your weeps
Common!
Everything has an owner
Do not think you are all alone
There sure is ointment for wounded hearts
There sure is the most merciful of mercifuls
Do not stand there with broken wings
There sure are invisible arms and fins
Which hug you, keep you in blessings

Now, stand up, wipe your tears

There are many hopes
Waiting for you, and many roads
Each road is a hope after all
Do not ever forget that
At the beginning of every hope
And at the end of every road
In fact; in everywhere,
Everywhere you can’t imagine
No doubt
There is GOD
The most merciful,
The most beneficent
Waiting for you
The Immanent…

Abdullah ACAR