There must be something

Waves 7" x  5" Acrylic on card

Waves
7″ x 5″ Acrylic on card

Is the sea as beautiful as this every day?
Does the sky look like this all the time?
Is this furniture, this window
always as lovely as this?
No
by God no,
There must be something behind this somewhere.

Orhan Veli Kanik,  
Translated by Bernard Lewis (1982)

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