THE FEAR

©Osman GASHI

Nothing noteworthy will happen
It will rain in the spring
Cherries will flourish
The earth will be filled with its hunger
There will be weddings
New graves will be opened
Nothing noteworthy will happen
The terrified mass-media will confess
About the new provocations of the God Mars
While in the big cinema of the capital city
For the hundred time the film “One Day After” will appear

Nothing noteworthy will happen
On the top of the muck all day long
With his toneless song
One rooster will presage The Night of Nightmare
People wrapped in the spider’s web
Will wait for the sky to open
Their lungs to clean
And their wounds to peel

I will know everything
I will see everything
Nothing noteworthy will happen
Nothing that should be announced in daily newspapers
Nothing that chroniclers should write in their chronicles
The fear is the simpleness of the day like bread water breath…

Translated by Fatbardha Statovci