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POEMS TO SARPEDON

SAND CASTLE
You are my sand castle
I build you one by one
To the endless seas
I rise up and looked at from your towers
I wandered around your city
I bathed in your baths
The truth I’ve been searching for years
I reached in your temples

You are my sand castle
I gladly made you
I hid you from everything
I climbed your walls
I fought with your enemies
Guilty innocent mother father offspring child
I killed a lot for you
I died once
They buried me in your agora
They performed rituals behind me
I am deified in my high grave
I reached you again

You are my sand castle
I build you one by one but
I even knew it would be destroyed one day
One night when you don’t open your doors
I threw drunken kicks at your walls
But you never broke down in front of me
I wrote poems on your walls
My eyes sent rivers to your city
The children caught me as fish
At your table you recognized me through my eyes
by your divine mercy
You hugged me with your door wings

You are my sand castle
I build you one by one

Sergen Yolcu

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