Thursday, November 11, 2010

Drenched





Closer than a smell of cloud in the rain
Farther than the sun behind the clouds
Were the words resting on my tongue.

Then I chose to close my eyes.
Only because the rain knew
Whom it was going to sprinkle.






 
Erol
November 11, 2010

Click here to access the original Turkish version of this poem, "Sırılsıklam".