Isvecli sair Gunnar Ekelof’un dogum yildonumu (15 Eylul 1907)
Bir dunyadir her insan
Onlara hukmeden kralin zatina karsi yurutulen
kasvetli bir isyandaki
kor yaratiklarla donanmis bir dunyadir her insan.
Her bir ruhta binlerce ruh hapsolmus,
her bir dunyada binlerce dunya gizli
ve bu kor, bu alttaki dunyalar
gercek ve canlidirlar, tamamlanmamis olsalar bile
benim gercek oldugum kadar gercektirler. Ve biz
icimizdeki binlerce olasiligin krallari ve kontlari
tebaaya mensubuz gene de, hapsedilmis ruhlariz
daha buyuk bir yaratikta, ki O’nun benligiyle varligi
ustamizi anladigimiz kadar az anliyor ustasini.
Onlarin olumunden ve sevdasindan
oturudur bizim duygularimizin bir renk tonu almasi.
Gecer gibi bir buyuk vapur
otede, ufkun altinda, durur orada
aksam isiltisi gibi. – Ve orada oldugunu
sahilde bize bir dalga ulasmadan once bilmiyoruz daha,
once bir dalga, sonra bir tane daha ve niceleri daha
carpar ve cagildar her sey yeniden
ayni olana dek. – Gene de farklidir her sey.
Insanlar gitti, bazi olasiliklar serbest kaldi
dediginde bize bir sey,
iste boyle kavrar garip bir huzurluk biz golgeleri.
Everyone is a world, peopled
by blind beings in dark commotion
against the self the king who rules them.
In every soul thousands of souls are trapped,
in every world thousands of worlds are hidden
and these blind, these underworlds
are real and living, though incomplete,
as true as I am real. And we kings
and princes of the thousand possibilities in us
are ourselves servants, trapped
in some greater creature, whose self and being
we grasp as little as our own superior
his superior. Our own feelings have taken
the color of their love and death.
As when a mighty steamship passes
far out, under the horizon, lying
in the evening glitter- - And we don’t know about it
until the swell reaches us on the shore,
first one, then another, and then many
which strike and boom until everything has become
as before. – Yet everything is different.
So we shades are troubled by a strange unease
When something tells us that others have gone ahead,
That some of the possibilities have been released.
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