AN IMMORTAL POEM
I
If you hear: I died
and I was dear to your heart
Maybe something inside you
will also suddenly turn gray…
Have you ever at all thought
about the true meaning of life?
Like snow on your palm,
childhood melting away in you.
Worries…. Are there any worries?
Sorrows… Are there any sorrows?
On the ladder of imagination
boldly climb up to your youth.
That beautiful but enticing rainbow
is waiting for you over there.
And live your life.
Live it to the very last drop.
Don’t nibble days like a mouse.
Chew the air with all your teeth.
Run faster than the winds and the birds.
Overtake them all.
Because, in the end, nothing lasts for long.
Smiling faces,
in some mirrors,
all of a sudden, become wrinkled.
Unexpected: at some corner,
a tear ambushes you.
Troubles come tiptoeing.
Years turn grayer.
All of a sudden, the world, while you’re walking
becomes more and more narrow
And your laughter quieter and quieter and somehow distorted
Therefore, live,
but completely!
…
Miroslav Mika Antić
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vibha @vibraj
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1 years ago
Life, mutability and immortality are timeless tropes and how delicately and in a heart rending way the poet has narrated these, thanks for sharing!!