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Tonight I Cannot Sleep

Tonight I Cannot Sleep

for Dalibor


'You are my drunkenness

I'm still drunk with you

I can't be sober

I don't want to be sober'

Nazim Hikmet

 

No, my Friend, on this night,

this vast, pure summer night

I cannot sleep!

 

All these stars, my Friend,

all these stars which intoxicate my soul,

all this silence,

all this silence

full of the liquid light of your eyes,

all tremble at the tips of my lashes!

 

Tonight,

tonight when every nest

is a small boat of happiness on a sparkling sea,

O my friend,

I cannot sleep!

 

translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges

18.01.08.


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