An Eternity Thief/Tat Vjecnosi Poem by Miroslava Odalovic

A patience so endless
Turning the bite of time into a tooth
It plunders my memories
A wait in fatigue
Transferring the eyes
From brim to brim

A single moment will be left without me
Floating on the water like a lotus flower
An abandoned beam of muteness

A single moment will deceive the shadows
And shun at the universe borders
At the borders of the universe
Happily silent will stand
An eternity thief

Tat vječnosti

Beskrajna strpljivost
Štu ujed vremena pretvara u zub
Hara mi sjećanja
Zamorna čekanja
Što oči prenose s ruba na rub

Jedan će tren ostati bez mene
Po vodi plutati u lati lotosa
Napušten tračak nijemosti

Na tren će jedan obmanuti sjene
I prezren na ivici kosmosa
Rdaovat se tiho tat vječnosti

1998.