女の子

First find out about introspective.

onna no ko
engulfed in flames
as a daisy in a desert
under the merciless sun
parched of its living water
singed of its white purity
vapourized with scattered winds
denied a resting place on earth
fire that nurtures
fire that kills
an uncontrolled wildfire
extends its deathly grasp
north and south
east and west
all four corners of the world
will burn
with children victim to their vulnerabilities
and fire setters to their mistaken justices:
a life for life
a death for death
from there young shoots are set alight
baked and shrivelled to mere ashes
restoring the earth with dead love
which from its cradle no love grows
even a daughter of water
may sizzle in the blaze
so only God can save
kız çocuğu

The Imagery

a scorching desert
fire, fire, fire
a burnt pit where plants no longer grow

The Content

As you can tell I am a fan of FazıI Say. I wrote this a while back, in September probably. Thinking not only of war, but of the deadliness of human fire.

Natural fires, whether, seasonal or volcanic, restore the Earth and bring new life after the destruction. But war fire leaves a singe that impoverishes and does not heal quickly enough. It is no natural fire but a synthetic fire, such as the one that bombed Hiroshima. And unlike natural fires in which the dead are returned to the earth, the atomic bomb simply vapourized the dead. There was not a trace of dignity left for the deceased. War fire is like radioactive radiation in the sense that nothing grows in the aftermath.

I thought the line "and fire setters to their mistaken justices" was particularly intriguing. It seems that I side with Mencius (the Eastern counterpart of John Locke) on the matter of human nature, preferring to describe violent impulses as bad mistakes that came from good intentions.