A gift for your birthday... Refik Martinović

          For You

One June
I stole for you
a piece of the blue sky
and locked the locks
 of happiness
in the morning
I  washed it with dew
and at night warmed
by dreams
and you thirsty as the earth
the sins of the night  howled in mystery
and unbuttoned youth
and restless longings
hid her hair.

You put out my pain
the fear of a wild river
 in the dawn of morning
and the time
of love droughts
the only one
after the mother
she brought me
 into the world
 in whose eyes
 I saw that eternity
worn only
 by a beloved woman
who caresses in the palm of her hand
the smiles
 of the mountain breeze
 gentle as spring
and playfully like a nightingale song
and never forgotten.

I married you dear
with the ring
 of the young  moon
in the scent of green grass
with a magical star dance
which are in white dresses
they hugged the night
 that was coming down quietly like a fairy tale
and you are  carefully weaved the nest
for two white pigeons
which the youngers 
flew away
in the blue distances
with the blessing
 who has  given them
 a tear
as a true and proud mother.