Free Letter ~ Besplatno Pismo Poem by Jankovic Zoran

You get ten of your stories
for one of my letters.
Let your stories remain yours,
and the letter should be free.
Here I am writing to you:

I'm thinking about us.
Sometimes we are like kids
who look forward to the gift:
We're honest and loud.

Sometimes with a serious voice,
a good old professor,
we give advice to each other.
Once, as old friends,
we do memories
which we have experienced.
Sometimes as a random passer-by,
in a tram or plane,
we talk about time.

But we never talk
as a former or future lover.
That's our magic.
If she once disappears
we will be no longer poets;
we will be ordinary, deceived mortals.

06/05/2014.

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Besplatno Pismo

Daješ deset tvojih priča
za jedno moje pismo.
Neka tvoje priče ostanu tvoje,
a pismo neka bude besplatno.
Evo pišem ti ga:

Razmišljam o nama.
Nekad smo kao djeca
koja se raduju poklonu:
Iskreni smo i glasni.
Nekad ozbiljnim glasom,
dobrog starog profesora,
dajemo savjete jedno drugom.
Nekad, kao stari prijatelji,
djelimo uspomene
koje smo doživjeli.
Nekad kao slučajni saputnici,
u tramvaju ili avionu,
razgovaramo u vremenu.

Ali nikad ne razgovaramo
kao bivši ili budući ljubavnici.
U tome je naša čarolija.
Ako ona jednom nestane
mi nećemo više biti pjesnici;
bićemo obični, zaludni smrtnici.

5.6.2014.