Nâzım Hikmet Ran's poem Kız Çocuğu (The Little Girl) conveys a plea for peace from a

seven-year-old girl, ten years after she has perished in the atomic bomb attack at

Hiroshima. It has achieved popularity as an anti-war message and has been performed

as a song by a number of singers and musicians both in Turkey and worldwide,

which is also known in English by various other titles, including "I come and Stand

at Every Door" and "Hiroshima Girl".

The Little Girl

That is me knocking the doors,
knocking the doors one by one.
You can't see me,
because dead are not visible.

It has been some 10 years,
since I died at Hiroshima.
I am a seven years old girl.
Dead children do not grow.

First my hair cached fire,
then my eyes burned.
I became a fist full of ashes,
My ashes blew in the wind.

I don't ask anything
from you, for myself.
Children who burned like paper
can't even eat candy.

I knock your door,
aunt, uncle, give a sign,
so that the children don't get killed,
so that they can also eat candy.

(1956)