ben senden önce ölmek isterim

• nazım hikmetin mükemmel şiirlerinden bir tanesi.
  
  ingilizce çevirisi
  
  (bkz: i want to die before you)
  
  i
  want to die before you.
  i
  want to die before you.
  do you think that who passes later
  will find who's gone before?
  i don't think so.
  you'd better have me burned,
  and put me on the stove in your room
  in a jar.
  the jar shall be made of glass,
  transparent, white glass
  so that you can see me inside...
  you see my sacrifice:
  i renounced from being part of the earth,
  i renounced from being a flower
  to be able to stay with you.
  and i am becoming dust,
  to live with you.
  later, when you also die,
  you'll come to my jar.
  and we'll live there together
  your ash in my ash,
  until a careless bride
  or an unfaithful grandson
  throws us out of there...
  but we
  until that time
  will mix
  with each other
  so much that
  even in the garbage we are thrown into
  our grains will fall side by side.
  we will dive into the soil together.
  and one day, if a wild flower
  feeds from this piece of soil and blossoms
  above its body, definitely
  there will be two flowers:
  one is you
  one is me.
  i
  don't think of death yet.
  i will give birth to a child.
  life is flooding from me.
  my blood is boiling.
  i will live, but long, very long,
  but with you.
  death doesn't scare me either.
  but i find our way of funeral
  rather unlikable.
  until i die,
  i think this will get better.
  is there a hope you'll get out of prison these days?
  a voice in me says:
  maybe.