DURING THE WAR
    
    Each night fathers came home ashamed
    During the war
    Mother's breasts were drained of milk
    And the babies cried.
    Men went to war.
    Women stayed behind like sekeletons.
    Young girls grew pale during the war.
    
    And from all those battles.
    Noting remains but a memory.
    
    Cahit Kulebi
    Translated by Talât Sait Halman
 
    An Anthology of Turkish Literature, Edited by Kemal Silay, 1996,
    Indiana University Turkish Studies and Turkish Ministry of Culture Joint Series, XV.