Illyrian Bust

I watch you for days
            and nights
your beauty astonishes me

I took you
or
brought you with me
into the embrace of time

Wounded smile
chiseled into marble

Captured look
brings back the suffering

The wheel of fortune keeps spinning

We look into each other’s eyes
you're dressed in marble
I am marble

On your unwrinkled forehead
mine disappear



Syri i natës, Rilindja, Prishtinë, 1986. Translated by Anna Guercio and Tomislav Kuzmanovic