Sin.. Refik Martinović

 

 You left that night
 when the sky wept with sorrow
 and sobbed the autumn rains
 fermented the cobblestones of our courtyard
 and we never saw each other again.
 You left...
 and forgot all the kisses
 who stayed at the end of the street
 your sin did not hurt you
 nor did you see how they were tonight
 all the birds were sad.

 I'll wait...
 to be distributed in the morning
 and go tired of loneliness
 I will seek you in our time
 which I hid in my poems
 maybe you didn't know
 that hidden love
 most flares
 when in the flames of fire
 stays with us.

 I'll lean my head back
 on the warm wing of silence
 to hear the scream of parting
 and I dream of days gone by
 when you are the glow of your eye
 lit the lanterns of the sleeping city
 and was my darling
 ... and now I am your sin
    let other loves judge you.