Mektup 125: Kosovo
Timeless They always asked me more than I could give, Demanded shapes of how I ought to live, I chose myself, though even that’s unclear, For who I am or will be — fog and fear. I saw a thousand worlds collaps and bend, A thousand versions born, a thousand end, I watched their lives unfold, their rise, their fall, Each one a different echo of my call. I gathered dreams and hung them in the sky, Filled up my eyes with lives that weren’t just mine, I drank their joys, their sorrows, sharp and sweet, Their greatest highs, their pain beneath my feet. I saw them bloom like flowers in the sun, Then fade to dust when all their time was done, A thousand me’s, all different, torn apart, Observed outside of time, yet close to heart. I wondered then: which version is the best? The strongest form, the one that beats the rest, The unbreakable, the flawless, cold and true, The conqueror of worlds, the iron you. I searched for years but never found that one, Though universes bowed till I was done, Th...





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