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Poem by Ndoc Gjetja.

I need to ask, for you are so awesome:
“Are you to me human or art?โ€
I look at you and tear my poems
and before you, verses fade out.


You are the poetry. Others are prose.
You are the poetry, the unique one,
youโ€™re inspiration in overdose,
the world to me seems washed in the Sun.


Many a day, you walk by me,
and day by day we stay so close,
that beloved word “I do love thee”
became so common a toast propose.


When all your being is given to me,
I take the World, no secrecy,
kiss becomes copy repeatedly
I say wise things that lack poetry.


So, go and leave me alone till dusk
or leave for a week and Iโ€™ll pick you up;
I want to get used to being apart,
and without you, to create my plight.


I need a blank that needs to be filled,
I need a thorn that stings fulltime,
I need to create a winter sans leaves,
I need to love you one more time.

Translation from Albanian into English

By Alfred Kola

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