The Redskins was a 1980s English band, notable for its left-wing politics, skinhead image.
What's left in the palm of your hand
Worked to death or never worked at all
There is no joy - no joy whatsoever.
At the end of the night
And the other voids make you shudder
When you hit the balance of being alone
Well, now what do you have in your hand:
Fighting, defeat, a piece of the cloud?
A late May with a photo of love?
A folk song or a soldier's flask?
Discharge or police station queue
A handy key or a police pistol?
Where, when and what kind of woman
-could be a man-
(S)he was happy with someone (else).
The skies are like a stray bell
Goes like a mad curve
Leaving us all empty
When you leave it empty
When
loneliness surrounds you like a multiplying dolphin
What do you have in your hand:
the memory of your noble grandfather or a sultan's table?
Is it a sequence number in the passport branch?
Rainbow, tuberculin, suicide wave?
When ordinary late afternoon Eternity
Appears at your door as a finality
What gives the way and who saves from it?
What not to save in the palm of your hand
Heavy trucks and the drivers?
Lost in the mountains and their guides?
The unmarried girls and their arranged marriages?
Now:
Remember those who stopped the last glacier from melting!
Blood donors, blood donors.
And don't forget the blood drawers.
- Turgut Uyar
