RUHAN MAVRUK

29-03-2023 CULTURE & ART GENERAL GÖÇ.COM Türkçe English Deutsch Italiano Français Ελληνικά Kurdî Español

We share with our friends a poem by poet, writer, human rights defender Ruhan Mavruk, who has made a name for herself with her latest book 'Welcome Geronimo', which consists of poems, interviews and letters, with her English translation.

I AM A WOMAN

question marks through the lines,

haven’t I hanged the iron curtains

againist the sun

have human merchants dragged my body

in the slave bazaars

have I decorated tables to my jailers,

gave birth kids to the storm,

carried the civilications with my hair

have smoky men whose loves are sailed

been raining down on the night

in some days, have I digged my grave

with my own hands

to some, have I been consisting of a bloody spot,

the queen in the history of tribes, to some

have I washed and acquitted my other half

were I snow, tempest, lonely

have I felt the skin of the starvation in the dark ,

the courage of the fear

had I got solely a pen

 I written!

                                                                               RUHAN MAVRUK