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Love

I come every morning to the beginning of this street

thinking that you will pass from here

I wait, wait, and wait…

 

when you are seen from far

my heart does not fit to its cage,

tulips bloom in me…

an inexplicable warmth embraces my body

I burn from top to toe…

I do not see who is on the street, I cannot see.

I do not see the trees

and when you approach

freezes my blood, freezes my mind

freezes my soul…

everything freezes in me

 

you just pass by,

it does not change anything whether I exist or not

it does not matter for you, for the world

or for the sun

 

when I return home

I carry a dream with me…

there is still a reason again

to overcome the dark and cold night

still a reason for me,

another reason to reach tomorrow morning,

I will run again,

 

I will run again the following morning

to the beginning of the same street

 

 

Translated by: Richard Mildstone

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Nov 19, 2009
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