The end of The Words

Have you listened to silence
in the cold?
It resembles dying.
Have you ever left
your flowers
Thirsty in their cage of loneliness?
Have you, from speeding distance,
listened to news bulletins?
Have you fallen in love
In languages unknown to you?

Before death,

I keep myself alive
with a wordless poem.

Cuneyt Ayral (from the book Siir Mezarliklari Gibi)
Translated by Feyyaz Kayacan (Fergar) 1979/London