Your Beauty by Lulzim Hajdari

 

Your Beauty

 

When you close your eyes, think only of me,  

For I will come in dreams to tell you I love you,  

When your body is laid on the bed,  

In your nightgown, unbuttoned without guilt,  

I will gently touch you, not to wake you from sleep,  

From the burning embers, I will blaze all!

 

And I will come out easily, like the leaves of autumn,  

And I will go to the river, right to the mountain's water,  

When you hear tomorrow that the waterfall has taken me,  

Do not worry at all, do not cry for me,  

I do not want tears in your eyes, nor any moans,  

Your beauty has shattered my heart!

NOW I AM CONVINCED OF MANY THINGS!

 

 

Now I am convinced of many things,  

That gratitude goes beyond paradise,  

It circles and wraps and takes it as a reward  

Like a tie wrapped around the neck,

 

But I am also convinced about the ungrateful ones,  

No matter how thick their necks may be,  

The tie will thin and thin so much,  

Until the last breathe to hell.

 

I am convinced of many, many things,  

About paradise and hell that we forget,  

But for one thing, I wait, for a sign from the great God,  

So that the afterlife I want to know if it exists!

 

Lulzim Hajdari was born in the village of Kukës - Albania, where he completed his primary and secondary education and later pursued studies in law. He has been the secretary of the Writers' and Artists' Association in the Kukës branch for 15 years. He has received several national and international awards and has published his works in dozens of anthologies. He has also written several genuine analyses and critiques of his published works.

Publications:

”Vajza që trazoi jetën time” (The Girl Who Disturbed My Life) - Novel

” Sytë mashtrues” (Deceptive Eyes) - Novel

”Dëshmia e hënës” (The Testimony of the Moon) - Novel

”Rikthim në jetë” (Return to Life) - Novel

”Lisjani” (Lisjani) - Novel

”Në letrën e fundit” (In the Last Letter) - Poetry

For Children:

”Djali me yll dhe vajza me hënë” (The Boy with the Star and the Girl

with the Moon) - Fairy Tale

”Zogu që sfidoi merimangën gigande” (The Bird That Challenged the

Giant Spider) - Fairy Tale.

Prepared by Angela Kosta Executive Director of the Magazines: MIRIADE, NUANCES ON THE PANORAMIC CANVAS, BRIDGES OF LITERATURE, journalist, poet, essayist, publisher, literary critic, editor, translator, promoter