Miroslav Antic – Pesma za nas dvoje

Znam,
mora biti da je tako:
nikad se nismo sreli nas dvoje,
mada se trazimo podjednako
zbog srece njene
i srece moje.
Pijana kisa siba i mlati,
vrbama vetar cupa kosu.

Kuda cu?
U koji grad da svratim?

Dan je niz mutna polja prosut.

Vucaram svetom dva prazna oka
zurim u lica prolaznika.
Koga da pitam,gladan i mokar,
zasto se nismo sreli nikad?

Il je vec bilo?
Trebao korak?
Mozda je sasvim do mene dosla.
Al’ ja,
u krcmu svratio gorak,
a ona
ne znajuci-prosla.

Ne znam.
Ceo svet smo obisli
u zudnji ludoj
podjednakoj,
a za korak se mimoisli.

Da, mora da je tako

English Translation

A Poem For The Two Of Us

I know,
it must be like that:
the two of us have never met,
although we keep searching for each other
because of her happiness
and my happiness.
Drunk rain whips and strikes,
wind pulls willows’ hair out.

Where am I going?
Which town should I stop by?

The day is spilled over opaque fields.

I’m dragging around two empty eyes
staring into faces of passerbys.
Who should I ask, hungry and wet,
why have we never met?

Or it already happened?
Missed a step?
Maybe she came all the way next to me.
But I,
stopped by a pub, bitter,
and she
not knowing – passed by.

I don’t know.
We’ve been around the world
in passion, crazy
even,
and we missed each other for a step.

Yes, it must’ve been like that….