I was born on the sixteenth of August seven months old
against nature
while trying to grow
to my father…
I started school
I knew how to read and write
for the teachers and the school
I started football the competitors were ill-tempered
I left, I was disabled
I started to work not to mention the one when I was five or six years old
then to the life in the years of seventies
I fell opposite to the system got lost with my peers
where was I supposed to live what?
I was the representative of one lost generation
and then long after…
I have undressed to become a boss, I wanted what I deserved
I fell opposite to what I wanted…
I became a laborer I asked for my rights I fell opposite with my employer..!
everything was upside down, I became a poet…

Poem by: Attila Elüstün 10.10.2011 Şişli/İstanbul
Translation by: Günsel Djemal Bromley/London