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If this love did not exist

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If This Love Did Not Exist

Your beauty wouldn’t be worth a penny if my love for You did not exist. Never would I found a place of rest if this throne in my soul did not exist.

If I wrote my troubles out, I’d run out of ink. My love for you is the only cure. Yor name would never had spread so far if love in lovers’ hearts did not exist.

For one person to read, another must write. Who among us can untie this knot? The lamb might even befriend the wolf if opposite purposes did not exist

Your beautiful face would not be seen, This love would never take shape in my breast, The rose would have no special place if love and the lover did not exist.

I received this suffering from Your hand. It turns out to be taste of the world. Veysel’s name wouldn’t be remembered if this love for You did not exist

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Veysel, A. (2023). If this love did not exist. BRIQ Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly, 4(4), 88-89.

Footnotes2
  1. note-1

    Artun, E. (2009). Aşıklık Geleneği ve Aşık Edebiyatı (p.367). Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: Kitabevi Publishing House.

  2. note-2

    From “Quarreling with God: Mystic Rebel Poems of the Dervishes of Türkiye; Translation by: Latif Bolat and Jennifer Ferraro

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