TED MALATYA COLLEGE / 10-A
Silence
Sudenaz KALAYCIK
A little candlelight . A dark room . Echoing sobbing sounds . “ I don ’ t want to die ,” someone screams . Noise of tears falling to the ground and a gunshot . A child left without a mother … Silence !
Red colour dropping on asphalt . A paleskinned woman . The eyes that look without light . Twenty-seven painful stab wounds … Silence !
A high building . An opened window to death . Dreams pushed into the void . A bird that couldn ’ t open its wings and fell onto the ground . This woman whose lungs are full of death in her last breath … Silence !
A deserted street . Feeling of being followed . Whistling sounds . Hectic steps . The wish to go home as soon as possible . Dirty looks . A body falling onto the ground . An innocent woman … Silence !
The smell of food from the stove . Food made without salt . The remaining hair left into the hand . A kitchen that looks like a blood lake … Silence !
A court-house . A divorce decision . Eyes that look like crazy . The woman who was thrown to the bottom while living and carried on the shoulders when she died … Silence !
A white wedding dress … The voices that deaf the ears . A wedding dress painted in red . A woman whose veil was her grave … Silence !
Smoke rising from the garden . The smell of burning dreams . Disappearing of help screams with the wind . A woman whose heart is ash … Silence !
Closing my eyes for no more silence . Closing my eyes for letting women have a place in the world . Because women in my dream different from women on Earth . A woman without fear of death , a woman who doesn ’ t have to hide . Neither behind nor in front . Man and woman overcoming obstruction together . Not as man or woman , as a human being they walking the same path .
I wish my dreams would come true . I want to hold on to life and dreams . I want to live ; we want to live . We want to grow flowers in gardens instead of your bringing flowers to graves . We don ’ t want to be silent . We want to light up the day with laughter .