Branko Miljkovic - Sonnet about a chastely love


 She's not here, I'm losing her more and more

In a honorable circle scratched by oblivion

Oh, supple imagery of water, living illusion

when the stone of sight comes to be her face.


Give me strength to love chastely, 

oh you day which began sadly. There hides

pain without an echo and a word without a reply.

Oh, give me strength above rough forces.


Give me resemblance to dream of, while a nightmare

is pricking my forehead and blooming on the table.

She's the part of a sleeping landscape, 

Mixed with the wind while it's silent in a shine.

I drain out the future from a cruel pain

Which dreams of summer blood and hell in heaven.



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