From loneliness
From loneliness remained a sad shadow in my eyes
and the desire to live became dear to me.
I feel almost no hatred, nor have insecurity
and my fears are allayed, I feel free…
From loneliness I learned to change seasons and epochs,
how to be let down naturally, without being hurt,
also to give of myself to people and to the world,
also to endure pain and to love, not to desert.
From loneliness I started singing softly, furthermore
keeping a diary and rhyming a poem through.
I learned to appreciate and managed to ignore,
I accepted to change for you.
Without loneliness, I would not enter other worlds,
or meet other people and participate in events.
I don’t fight over trivial things anymore
I don’t rely on a word- load of nonsense.
From loneliness I learned to protect myself little by little
and to protect other people from myself too.
I want to understand and be understood by people,
then to ask for undeserved things I don’t have to.
From loneliness, oh from loneliness, from loneliness
I know how to talk with fate, with nature, with Lord,
to accept the people’s madness and my madness
and every day to serve the globe.
Translated by: Laureta Petoshati
