I don’t want freedom gram by gram, grain by grain.
I have to break this steel chain with my teeth!
I don’t want freedom as a drug, as a medicine,
I want it as the sun, as the earth, as the heavens!
Step, step aside, you invader!
I am the loud voice of this land!
I don’t need a puny spring,
I am thirsting for oceans!
Khalil Reza Uluturk (1932 - 1994) Azerbaijan
Translated by Aynur H. Imecer
Source: Scottish Poetry Library
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