Jennifer’s 57th Birthday
by Bahtiyar Hidayet
At your age —
how can such beauty exist?
Maybe God hasn’t finished his masterpiece yet.
Your beauty
is as endless as the sky.
Your black hair — black clouds.
And if those black clouds
one day turn into white clouds,
you will become even more beautiful,
like the clear sky.
Your eyes are like the sea:
brings old age ashore
like a dead sea lion
Maybe these subtexts
will reach you when I’m underground.
You will cry under the blanket,
and your eyes,
like the sea,
will
throw back old age
and you will become even younger.
But maybe then you will know that
stars are not only in the sky,
stars are not only on the stage.
There are also stars underground —
for example, ruined poets,
destroyed talents.
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Bahtiyar Hidayet – citizen of Azerbaijan, born in 1974
Graduated from university in 1995
Worked as a history teacher since 1998
Has 4 poetry books
Author of up to 100 stories and one novel
Married, has 3 children
