If The People Want To Sleep Poem by Fatos Arapi

If The People Want To Sleep



.. there are two people
Who sleep with their eyes wide open,
...
For thirty years they have dreamt
Of meeting one another again every night.
After a separation-oblivion, after a separation-death.
...
And they sleep with their eyes wide open.
...
And their sleep is real.

(1980)

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Translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie
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