Sahi Orhan Veli Ateist mi?
Orhan Veli'nin bu konudaki görüşünü açıklayan en iyi şiiri sanırım şu:
Lakırdılarım
1914'de dogdum,
15'de konustum;
Hala konusuyorum.
Lakirdilarim ne oldu?
Gokyuzune mi gitti?
Belki de hepsi geri gelecek
Tayyare bicimine girip
1939'da.
Allah varsa eger
Baska bir sey istemem ondan.
Bununla beraber istemem
Ne Allahin olmasini,
Ne de isimin
Allaha kalmasini.
Here is the English version
ALL MY TALK
I was born in 1914
And began to talk in 1915:
I've been talking ever since.
What's become of all my talk?
Did my words shoot up to the sky?
Maybe they'll all come back
In the form of an airplane
In 1939.
If god exists
O want nothing else from Him,
But then I want neither
God to exist
Nor my affairs
To be left in His hands.
(
http://www.orhanveli.net/talathalman/allmytalk.html)