My Sweet Mother, while you're fleeing
Do not take me in your lap
The bullet which hit me 
	Kills you also

.I.
  
Her mother's hand stretches
And strokes of the head of her dead child
	Blood stains her hand
Her mother's lip extends
And kisses the tiny hands of her dead child
	Blood bedaubs her mouth
The mother embraces her dead child
And her name turns into "Blood Mother"

.II.

The child who made necklace from empty shell-cases
Runs in a green field laughing
Her foot strikes something all at once
She looks at the  dead child lying on the ground
And giving her the necklace as a gift
Runs away in a green field sobbing

.III.

Well now, let the guns be silent
For my brother is sleeping
	Over the last three days
If he awakes he will begin crying
We have no milk to feed him

.IV.

Three men
Shot a blue-eyed child today
The blue-eyed boy did know who were they
He did not know either why they shot him
His blue eyes looked at the three men
Walked and vanished

.V.

Mother, give birth to many brothers and sisters for me
So that war could not kill all
But would they not cry
My alive brothers and sisters too
Perhaps they would be angered
"To be the brothers and sisters
Of dead children"

.VI.

Today my father, the violet blossom, was killed
I saw him while they were carrying him away
His beautiful eyes were gazing at me
	When the war is over
And then he would be back home
I would say to him "Look here, violet blossom,"
"All the window-panes of our house are broken"
	"I am very cold at night"
	"I cover myself with your cloak"
The violet blossom
The violet blossom
My father was killed today

.VII.

Mother, why did they bury my father
To the war cemetary?
We had enough space in our garden
Withered the most beautiful thing in the 
Our tree of graciousness
Would it wither if our father were alive?

.VIII.

For sure, my father is not dead, mother!
Enough, don't cry anymore
He is waiting for us at our home
When I grow up
I will climb the wall at the border
And I will bring him back

.IX.

While you caress me
	Why do you weep, mother?
Why whenever you see me
	You embrace me?
If they come to kill us
We say to them:
"We  lost our father during the last battle,
 if you kill us, too,
 who will look after the orange trees?"

.X.

My sweet mother
War ended now, my sweet mother,
War is finished
War is finished
Can I venture to go out to the garden?
Can I water the violets?

My sweet mother, war is over,
War is finished
War is finished

If they say when I grow up "Go to the war"
I shall blind my eyes
Because they don't send blind people to war!

Translations : Osman Turkay