invitation

Galloping from Far Asia and jutting out
into the Mediterranean like a mare's head
   this country is ours.

Wrists in blood, teeth clenched, feet bare
and this soil spreading like a silk carpet,
   this hell, this paradise is ours.

Shut the gates of plutocracy, don't let them open again,
annihilate man's servitude to man,
   this invitation is ours.

To live
like a tree
single and at liberty
and
brotherly
like the trees of a forest,

this yearning is ours

Nazim Hikmet