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It was May 31st, I was sitting with everyone

We were there, at Taksim Square

Then a sudden smell of gas… and chaos all around

It was a stampede…. and settling darkness

 

I do not know, if I am okay or not at all

I really don’t know

But I’m alive, and that’s what I am glad for

Even though all the time, can’t stop my crying

 

Lobna, hold on, the life you believed in

Is still on your side

Lobna what you’ve been through

Cannot ever be ‘life’, at all

 

Lobna,  you were out there,

With reason and hope for all

Lobna, the two being one can never be

A crime at all

 

I went back to being 5... A little woman

With baby goals and tiny tasks

The woman inside me, is she still the one?

Yes she is and not quite the same

 

The words are in my mind, but they simply can’t

Just flow out, I’m learning how

Everything has changed, there’s only one thing that has not

Which is my joy for life

 

Lobna, hold on, the life you believed in

Is still on your side

Lobna what you’ve been through

Cannot ever be ‘life’, at all

 

Lobna,  you were out there,

With reason and hope for all

Lobna, the two being one can never be

A crime at all

 

İyi insan…