Christopher Merrill - Yannis Ritsos

[Svemirski_Jebach]

Because
variation on a theme by Yannis Ritsos

Because the Dead Sea released its hostages - the taste for salt, a rudder and a sail;
Because a band of Roman slaves, disguised in their master's robes, fled across the Continent;
Because one manuscript, one waxen shoal of words, burned a monastery down;
Because the sun spurned the Black Forest, and windmills ground the peasants into the earth, into the air, into the voice of the boy who cried wolf;
Because the crowd hissed at the empty stage, and the prompter drank himself to sleep, and the diva hid in the pit;
Because we let barbed wire replace our wooden faces and fences;
Because a scream left a trail through the ruined air;
Because I followed that trial into the woods, where my hands dissolved in smoke and rain;
Because I wandered for days, weeks, until I found himself outside a walled city, a city abandoned hundreds of years ago;
Because I couldn't scale the walls nor find a way to return to my homeland, and so I settled along a river in the desert;
Because the river changed course, and its banks crumbled into the dry bed, where I was on my knees, speechless and afraid;
Because whenever I hike into the desert, I talk and talk and talk;
Because I have never been to the desert;
Because I refuse to follow any trial whose markings are not completely clear;
Because I distrust signs, guideposts, land- and seamarks;
Because on my single visit to the ancient city I rifled the ruins for potsherds and stone tools - and was warned never to return;
Because I heed all warnings, all directives from the crowd;
Because I won't listen to anyone but myself;
Because I love to cry wolf;
Because everything I read smells of smoke;
Because sometimes I wake at night to find my hands covered with salt, my sheet wrapped around me like a sail;
Because I can't tell this is the desert or the sea;
Because I never learned to read the stars and don't know where we're heading;
Because of this and more, much more, I hid your name in the well...
and here it is again, filling my cup.

[violentjack]

Ne znaju ovdje svi Engleski

[Svemirski_Jebach]

sorry nemam prevoda...nisam mogao naci.



pjesma je super...

[Svemirski_Jebach]

Ne znaju ovdje svi Engleski

ili nek vas ovo natjera da ucite

[violentjack]

Znam ja vise od 6 godina sam u USA