Ali Podrimja

Let it all be forgotten
Let it all be forgotten

My brother spit in my face
Laughing, guffawing

I saw him weep

Let it all be forgotten

Last night I embraced someone
My friend, forgive me, my friend

I was drunk last night, my friend

Let it all be forgotten.

[Ali Podrimja, from the volume Trungu ilir, Prishtina: Rilindja, 1983, p. 321.
Translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie]