Up And Down - In Croatian Literature Poem by Miroslav Mićanović

She stayed up(stairs).
He went down(stairs) with friends to the table.
She only called briefly
with a message to tell him that she was leaving.
She didn't know where he was, but
she didn't know where she was,
along with everything that she wants and must
and next to that she must pass.

He didn't know where he was,
but he stood up when he saw her
approaching the place where
he was going to pick her up. Just a moment,
he said and stopped the conversation about
poetry and those important things,
about serious madness we talked,
he gasped when he came close to her.

Both were down(stairs), which doesn't mean
that a few moments before
they were separated or that they could be
closer, closer to each other while
she stayed apparently motionless.

She stayed up(stairs).
He went down(stairs) with friends to the table.
She said just briefly that she was leaving
and he looked stealthily as to when this will
happen. But she didn't want him to see
this. He no longer knew where she was
and where he was. She only moved about
ten metres. Distance made because a lot of things in poetry
can be used. He didn't know where he was
when they picked her up. He saw three-four-five
slowed down moments before the top of her
head, which wasn't hers because it was sticking
out of a car and was looking for one similar to hers.

She stayed up(stairs).
He went down(stairs) with friends to the table
She only called briefly
with a message to tell him that she was leaving.
She didn't know where he was, but
she didn't know where she was,
along with everything that she wants and must
and next to that she must pass.

Translated by Luka Mićanović & Lyn Šikić Mićanović