Red umbrella
Why did you give me this red umbrella?
It was raining and I accepted it,
Now I see it and I feel pain,
But I cannot hide it like you did.
Why did you give me this red umbrella,
A gift that brings sadness to me?
I’d accept the heaviest rain from the sky,
And keep it on my shoulders like a tree.
Translation from Albanian to English
By Alfred Kola
