Friday, March 29, 2024

It Will Come For Sure

Optimism

I write poems
they don’t get published
but they will

I’m waiting for a letter with good news
maybe it will arrive the day I die
but it will come for sure

the world’s not ruled by governments or money
but by the people
a hundred years from now
maybe
but it will be for sure

Nâzım Hikmet, 1957
English translation by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

George Frederic Watts, Hope, 1886. Courtesy of Tate Britain.

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