THE DREAM
(Cosmic Palimpsest)
Don’t despair, my dear,
Don’t be disappointed either
I just found out
I don’t exist at all
Neither you
All is a dream
No one exists
Even worse
Neither the world
Nothing that we think it is
It’s not
Mountains don’t exist, seas, oceans
Not even the heavens
There are no Planets
Sun, Earth and the moon
The Moon not at all
(Logic), something so beautiful Can’t exist
Just as they do not exist
years of light
The milky way
Atmosphere, hydrosphere
There is no biosphere
and there has never been
Not even there will be
forget it
PERIOD.
Astronauts have lied though
Neither they exist
Don’t believe in galaxies anymore,
Big bang a dream has been
Like a dream so,
Of wretched, of beautiful
Full of fire
Birth and death
Hell, and paradise
Only dreams are
Don’t despair
Neither is there Milky way
Not even the universe
I am sorry my love
Does not exist
Love either
Although I love you
Neither our Parents ever have existed
(where are they so?)
Only for the God I know
He’s somewhere,
Perhaps he is the only one denied
Maybe he is
“Seeing us in the dream”
That God
Is like a little kid
That plays with stars.
SUNDAYS DO NOT CALL ME
Sundays do not call me
Maybe I won’t wake up
Forever remaining in the sleep of death.
Do not forget the frozen moments
Only on Sundays your day is chosen.
For you, when I die
After seven mountains,
I will seek your name.
Ah! why don’t you come on other days
TEUTA
Tonight, I call you Teuta
To go to the pub Poison
That your tongue draws out.
Your eyes – harbingers of ice
In the broken branch
Of the silent destiny.
Teuta
Gods bow before you.
I REMEMBER YOUR FACE
I remember your face
The blood – frozen tear
Covering me.
I remember your language
A snake – black poison
Wrapping my destiny.
When you sleep
I wake up
With your memory.
YOU SLEPT UNDER THE MOON
Don’t you pity me?
Lest the sun hurt your eyes?
You slept under the shadow of the moon
And nilly i hid you in the song.
Why are you crying?
Aren’t you sorry that the eyes
Will come in your song
And I’ll forget the way back?
From the mischievous wailing,
From the black dream,
Please don’t cry
Don’t you pity me, child?
WHEN I WILL DIE
When I will die
Do not cry baby
I betrayed you
With the virgins of another planet.
When I will die do not cry sister
I gallop on Gherghi’s horse *
Over the waves of the sea…
When I will die do not cry mother
Only nurse
these
melancholic
metaphors
as you nursed me once…
__________
* Gjergj Elez Alia, a folk character
TERRIBLE SONGS
Oh sir the evils
Rise and come
We expect the in our chest
Humble, we bow our head.
Oh sir the evils
Come before dawn
Chain of bullets
And girdle with cutters
Oh sir
And angry become without fear
Over the prudent necks
Over the calm chest.
Oh sir
And rise and come
Watch over us God…
Here they come …
(Prishtina, 1999)
FREE TERRITORIES
The territories were free
And we were also
The day was long and happy
We kissed under an apple tree
Suddenly rockets began to fall
The free territories
Have changed to deserted territories
Deserted we became too
I wonder
Who kisses now there
Under that deserted apple tree…
THE MAIN HERO
The hero had been surrounded
From all parts
And he hid in the manor
With a prostitute
Having sex
Deeply despaired
Of the history
That was never
Sung
By lute or ciftelia * …
____
* Albanian folk instrument
TALKING WITH SUN
I want to say something
Only to you.
Has someone touched you
with a hand?
Do you have tears in your eyes?
THEY TOLD ME TO RUN AWAY AND I DID
My severed head
They gave it to my hand
And they said
Go!
My intestines they taken out
And with them
They tied my legs
And they said
Go!
I filled my pockets
With blood
Suitcases with my
limbs and
I WENT.
He was born on 2nd February 1970 in Lipjan near Prishtina, the capital city of the Republic of Kosova. He completed his primary and secondary education in his birthplace, in Lipjan…
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