We shall meet . . .

Painting by Martin Raabe, “Lovers”

We shall meet after the end of world, you told me

When we’ll be just you and me, sunrise and sunset.

We shall meet after the end of the world, precisely

When we’ll be just we two, abyss within abyss.

We shall meet when all will pass through fire

And we’ll be ashes or we’ll be no more.

We shall meet again when everything makes sense

Without understanding why I was what I was.

VICTORIA MILESCU, Romania

Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan

in cooperation with the author