Vasile DÂRVOSANOV
(R. Macedonia)

About Separation

The embers die out.
They will soon become ashes.

She stirs the fire,
But in vain.

The fire has woven its way through the slums.


    The Woman

The woman knows
When you are no longer in love with her
How to take your heart away from you
And how to lay it upon your palm.

The woman knows
When you are in love with her
How to turn the moment into eternity
And into God.

The woman knows,
The woman knows everything.
 

       The Wall

There is a wall between us,
Cold and mute.
One of us makes it fall,
The other builds it up.

We keep on demolishing it but in vain.
The wall is still between us.
I on  one side,
You on the other side
Of the wall.


    Reality

You know what you wish,
But you are afraid of yourself
And that’s why you do not come.

You come out in my dream
But in vain.

The dream is beautiful,
Reality is ugly.

    Fright

It wasn’t too easy for you
When you were frightened of something.

You take fright at your shadow,
You are seized with horror in your sleep
Even if you oppose to the fright.

(from Vasile Dârvosanov, Pâine si apă.
Colectia „Balcanice”. Editura Academiei Internationale Orient-Occident,
Bucuresti, 2003.)
    Traduceri de Olimpia IACOB