My name is Özgür Bakay. I was born in Turkey in 1984, and today I reside on Long Island, New York, where the tides of the Atlantic whisper against the shore.
Yet my story cannot be confined to geography alone. It has been shaped in the unseen pathways of existence, in the silent corridors we each open within ourselves. What you will encounter here—poems, stories, philosophical reflections—are not merely words on a page, but fragments of a life lived and examined, woven together with the thought-world of Carl Gustav Jung.
We live, or so it seems, surrounded by the surface of visible realities. Yet the deeper truths rarely reveal themselves to the eye; they open instead before the soul. As Jung reminds us: “One who does not know his own shadow will be lost in the shadow of others.”
So too has my journey unfolded. There is no light without the courage to face the dark. There is no discovery without first losing one’s way. There is no wisdom without error, no depth without the purifying weight of suffering.
The words you will find here may at times be an ocean contained within a single drop of verse; at others, a quiet parable concealed within a story; and at others still, the piercing summons of a philosophical meditation.
I do not think of these writings as texts to be consumed, but as bridges—fragile yet enduring—stretching toward your inner self. Perhaps on a weary evening, perhaps in a moment of stillness, you may arrive here and feel the words touch you, offering companionship or guidance for your own inner journey.
Their purpose is not to provide ready-made answers, but to awaken questions long dormant within you. For truth, more often than not, is not to be sought outside, but uncovered within.
My poems, my narratives, my philosophical meditations—each is a fragment of a greater whole. They all circle the same primordial question:
“What is the essence of the human being, and how might one reach one’s own truth?”
This site carries the traces of my personal pilgrimage. Yet it is also an invitation—an invitation to you. To awaken the voice within that has long been silenced, to recall a light you may have forgotten, and perhaps to recognize in these words a mirror of your own soul.
