Branko Miljkovic - A desparate song

Enthusiasm is violence, oh you uneducated day; 

The sky was given as tax to the lie.

Where should I go? What should I do? The night is looking for me everywhere;

Dogs and deaf meadows are reciting my poems;

The flower and the bird have been caught in a lie!


We know all about the cruelty of a premature freedom

And when the dream which the night had knitted, touched us

The forged dawn which they're singing odes to

And the descent into the heart mirrors the descent into hell

To get the loveful trash by the shine of an incident. 


Oh soul, you animal followed by sadness

Introduce us to the songwriting frost

Oh forest, you heavy rhyme at the very end of the world,

Shan't the beaten evil do so much as sing

In front of the new evil which begins to bloom? 


The thought unable of thinking

Has began to rule over the world. And now it's too late

To say anything which would make sense

To a man and to the bird under which rain fell on us

And to the dead which rotted with honor. 




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