What Accumulates

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WHAT ACCUMULATES

Everything accumulates
In the form of words thoughts and objects
Everything accumulates

Still waters inverted writings labor and teardrops
That which flows that which dries
Rights righteousness, tortures death
Everything you think flies accumulates
Experience accumulates

Like us, did you also
Think lies were birds
Had they wings would they fly away?
What you eat will burn you
What you strike will burn you
Just see if hell exists or not

Everything accumulates
Fingers that point, eyes that see
The reticent the gregarious accumulate
Sentenced with no courtcase no dossier
With no weapon no word no blood no fight
Is it a mountain, no, a plain
A city or a square, no
It's a country, it's people that accumulate

Translated by Suat Karantay