My Love is so ignorant
My love drinks water from plastic cups.
Leaning its elbows against the wooden table,
Lost in thought, it watches the river going through the city.
My love is so thoughtful and thirsty
That it fails to feel the touch of rain wetting its hands.
Not knowing that the SOURCE is behind the mountain,
My love still seeks water in plastic cups.
My love is so ignorant and thirsty…
Alisa Velaj is an Albanian poet whose work has appeared in a number of print and online international magazines. For more information this is her website: http://www.aquillrelle.com/authoralisa.htm
This poem is translated from Albanian by Ukë Zenel Buçpapaj.