Bebeklerim Ulusu Yok
(Children don't belong to a Nation)
Students from ODTÜ DF school in Ankara (Turkey), under the guidance of their teacher. Ms. Eylem Erkan, present a beautiful poem about childhood:
Children are the same in every part of the world, with the same needs and feelings.
Adults should be also!
Fragment in Turkish, with international signs:
Text in English of the whole poem:
Children do not belong to a Nation
I've had
this feeling for the first time away from the native shore
Babies do not have the nation
Holding of heads of the same
Curious eyes looking at the same
Tone of the voices crying
Babies flower humanity
The roses Moreover, the most bud
Some part of a light blond
Some black grape
Dads Do not mind them
Protect Mothers of babies
Silence Silence make me tell you
If the destruction of the war, there is one
Let them grow up passion
Arrivals flourish like saplings
You and me is not nobody
All they have is a common Earth
All human pupil
I've had this feeling for the first time away from the native shore
Babies do not have the nation
Dolls, flower humanity
And the only hope for our future ...
Ataol Behramoĝlu