LIFE IS LIKE THIS

This house had a dog,
Very shaggy;
Named Chinchon;
It died.
This house also had a cat: Mavish.
It got lost.
The daughter of the house got married.
So many other bittersweet things 
Happened last year.
Yes, they did;
But, it's like this.
Life's always like this!




Orhan Veli
Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, 1989