BRANKA VOJINOVIĆ JEGDIĆ

BRANKA VOJINOVIĆ-JEGDIĆ

AN OLD COAT

A strange glow in you eyes

Tells me of new love in your heart

Our love came to its end

Your lips tell me it’s time to part.

You don’t kiss me tender any more

A cold wall is between us

For me, it's too late to fight

Other woman is on your mind.

A strange glow in you eyes

Tells me of new love in your heart

Our love came to its end

Your lips tell me it’s time to part.

Just kiss me this last time and then go…

While I am torn to pieces

The seams will tear apart

Instead of blossoming love.

Kiss me once more

Bring fascination to me

And a tender comfort

Even with that false passion

As if I were an old coat.

Kiss me once more

Then just throw me away

Don’t let your kind words float

Just throw me away stilly

As if I were an old coat.

Branka Vojinović-Jegdić (Montenegro)

I'D ACCEPT IT AGAIN

On whose shoulder will I put my head

To whom will I surrender this night

Oh, just forget me girl, you said

In a sad solitude helplessly wrapped.

I was your wayside station only

When you have stopped by to rest your soul

changes came, on the past I could dwell

blossoming love can't survive a dry spell

Again, I'd  accept living in a lie

And for your love I would die

Just call me, it will never be too late

I will say yes to deity of love and celebrate.

Branka Vojinović-Jegdić (Montenegro)

BETWEEN DESPAIR AND HOPE

If Apocalypse ever happens

It will miss me

For I was given

A mark of survival at my birth,

Wandering over the roads of weeping

Soles of my feet are cracked

Leaving bloody tracks

Over the paths of pain,

And the sunrise catching me

As if a wounded beast

In the cage of unrest,

The blossoming cherries

Give me no longer consolation.

And to you?

To me, winters still die,

Cherries still blossom for me

those black horses

are still playful in their gallop over Bukovac

and that mulberry tree is still there

a blanket, a blue sky, the white clouds

a black coffee and her smile,

in her arms she held a rabbit with a wounded leg

so funny,

talking restlessly

and I was listening

I loved to listen to her

I loved her voice,

I even loved that rabbit,

and how I wanted to be him

so she would hold me in her arms

looking at me with so much love.

White clouds above us in rush,

is it possible all of that disappears?

The birds whisper while flying

the time is close enough.

It is good for you my friend

Those cherry blossoms

Still waking up

With their sweet smell

Your dreams fallen asleep,

I stopped to warm up

On the cinders long ago,

I do not clean a wound

Of defeat any more,

I do not recognize myself in the shade,

The mirrors have been broken,

I give up yesterday,

Let the memories heal

I give up hope,

Waiting readily.

Without any luggage.

I would take that rabbit with me

and her smile

and a touch of her palm.

I do not wish to accept the end

even if it is a new beginning

even if it promises infinity.

I do not wish the world to disappear

for I love,

I want it to last

as long as there is love,

ripe mulberries are falling

and a white rabbit is at play . . .

Authors of the song-Branka Vojinović-Jegdić (Montenegro) & Slobodan Mrkojević (Philadelphia)

Translation into English: ĐURĐA VUKELIĆ ROŽIĆ (Croatia)

BRANKA VOJINOVIĆ JEGDIĆ