As months chased after years, your waiting neared the full ten-year mark.
Have you ever prayed long into the night, only to weep when your prayers go unanswered?
Has the inability to reap the material and spiritual rewards of your efforts ever weighed like a stone in your chest?
Sometimes, a person feels unbearably heavy, as if tons of burdens rest upon their shoulders—
the weight of injustices,
the strain of living something unearned,
the agony of loneliness,
and the relentless, agonizing burden of viewing each breath as merely surviving while life slips away…
Have you ever waited a long time?                                  * I wrote this poem in Turkish and used an LLM to have its English translation