AlfaPena/ Poetry by Ismail Kadare: CRYSTAL

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The poetry of CRYSTAL - by Ismail Kadare

It's been a while since we last saw each other and I feel
like I'm slowly forgetting you,
like your memory is dying in me,
like my hair and everything is dying.

Now I'm looking high and low
for a place where I can leave you
a verse or a note, or a diamond
where I can leave you, kiss you, go.

If no tomb, no marble, accepts you , should
a crystal morgue
still have to carry you,
half dead, half alive?

If I can't find a place to throw you,
I'll find a field or a flowerbed,
where I can gently
scatter you everywhere, like pollen.

Maybe I'll deceive you like this
and kiss you and leave without returning
, and neither of us will know if
this was oblivion or not./ Alfapress.al

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