Branko Miljkovic - Tito

While he speaks it's like the stars fall

into the beautiful water from some eternity behind changeable shapes,

he points his finger to an unimagined yet false time

where the past is yet to pass

and says:

he who goes there shall arrive on the day before the day he left,

to a dissimilar utopia unfaithful to what's behind it

where the awful song of otherwise praised birds is.

He doesn't keep anything a secret, he talks about

every stain in the eye, every cloud in the soul

the future isn't everything that's going to happen,

a lot of things will simply repeat

the past isn't everything that's gone for good,

and a part of future remains unknown.

He teaches us how to not lose individuality

with our hope, with our beautiful humane face

he teaches us to recognize future

in what we do, in what will come

for woe is he who loses every similarity to this city,

woe is he who doesn't have his place on this square

woe is he who measures himself by his shadow

which is the day of his unlit blood.

The future is there, it just needs to be recognized

and segregated.

Oh white city, oh city of flowers on whose avenues wheat 

blooms

once thrown into the ground, never thrown away

like when you get down, like when you disappear

only to be able to appear - buried gold.





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