Eros + Aphrodite Pt. 2:

Simone’s Notes:

In Turkish, the word "love" comes up with several meanings. A person can love a god, a person, parents, or family. But that person can "love" just one special person, which they call the word "ask." Ask, a word of Arabic origin, is a feeling for to love, or being "in love" (Asık), as it still is in Turkish today. The Turks used this word just for their loves in a romantic or sexual sense. If a Turk says that he is in love (Asık) with somebody, it is not a love that a person can feel for his or her parents; it is just for one person, and it indicates a huge infatuation. The word is also common for Turkic languages, such as Azerbaijani and Kazakh.

Jakob has go back to school tomorrow morning

This will be the last night that he spends with Riza and their baby

His hand caresses her tummy

The baby kicks against Riza’s belly

Two more months to go

They can’t wait to meet their precious angel

They know that she is a little girl

Jakob kisses Riza on the forehead

“I love you,” he whispers.

His wife sleeps peacefully in his arms.

It hits him to leave her alone two months before the birth of their child

Still, his education came first

He needed it to provide a stable home life for his family.

Jakob needs to be a man

He’s on his way of completing that

Riza makes most of the money

But, Jakob wants to provide as well.

His wife is okay with this.

She supports his life choices

They spent a sweet and romantic night together last night

He’ll be back by summer.

By then,

It will man, wife, and baby.

Right now,

It’s just two and a half people in bed on a warm spring night

Luckily,

Their love is too pure to feed the poisonous lusty hell unfolding

Around them