Literature

Turn Off the Nation’s Lights

A Poem from Azerbaijan

Anyway, you supply electricity with interruptions.

Teach us to live with interruptions as well.

Turn off the nation’s lights.

Bahtiyar Hidayet-Sindh CourierBahtiyar Hidayet, born in 1974 in the Gazakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, graduated from university in 1995 and has been working as a history teacher since 1998. Wrote poetry since high school and has 4 poetry books published in Azerbaijan.

Turn Off the Nation’s Lights

Anyway, you supply electricity with interruptions.

Teach us to live with interruptions as well.

Turn off the nation’s lights.

Happiness, like a moth,

May fly toward the light.

Turn off the nation’s lights.

Anyway, our road is not toward the side where the light comes from.

Our road is in the direction of barking dogs.

Turn off the nation’s lights.

While the graves of our great ancestors

Are burning after seeing our sorrow,

Turn off the nation’s lights.

You love the nation very much.

That is why you have plunged everywhere into darkness.

The nation is searching for the water of eternal life in the darkness.

Thank you.

You have raised the nation

To the level of Alexander the Great.

We have conquered the world.

We are at the top of international blacklists.

Turn off the nation’s lights.

Every day of our lives passes in tears.

After so much rain,

The light of lightning is enough for us.

Turn off the nation’s lights.

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Read: The Poet’s Heart – Poetry from Azerbaijan

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