Branko Miljkovic - The black horseman

Oh you beautiful and bitter night, vertical as a fence, 

Here comes the black horseman

to make a conspiracy with the roads

oh you night clenched into a fist.


His voice will empty out the sonorous spaces

his words will awake a nightmare

at the bottom of his black eyes lay

a dog ready to bark at any sky


The black horseman who was made up by the bitter night,

wild night which the horseman led 

through horrified roads, who had a quarrel

and split up onto four sides of the world


The black horseman about whom nothing is known

whose name was taken by the winds

the black horseman was the only one

who looked for us beyond us and slaughtered our absence


Oh what a horrifying thought of the black horseman

when we woke up bloody

with slit throats, with cut arms

unable to yell and to take


Oh what a horrifying thought of the black horseman

first seen on the Red Banija

who trapped in our skull 

runs from our forehead to our scalp




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