NATAŠA RADANOVIĆ

 

 

A Human Is What Remains

When Everything Is Taken Away

 

A human is not a house,

nor a name,

nor the blood that gave them life.

 

A human is what remains

when the house is gone,

the name is gone,

and even those they loved

are taken away.

 

Only then

does truth step out barefoot,

without jewels,

without witnesses.

 

Evil is loud

because it fears silence.

 

Goodness is silent

because it knows

that time speaks

every language in the world.

 

Some spend their whole lives

collecting the faults of others,

forgetting

that their own soul

is left empty-handed.

 

The greatest defeat

is not being betrayed.

 

The greatest defeat is

allowing their darkness

to make you forget

that you were once light.

 

That is why

I do not carry stones

for other people’s roads.

 

I carry a heart.

 

For a stone

sinks in the very first river,

 

but a heart,

if it remains pure,

can cross even eternity.

 

ČOVEK JE ONO ŠTO OSTANE KADA MU SVE ODUZMU

 

Nije čovek kuća,

ni ime,

ni krv koja ga je rodila.

 

Čovek je ono

što ostane

kada mu uzmu i kuću,

i ime,

i one koje je voleo.

 

Tek tada

istina izlazi bosa,

bez nakita,

bez svedoka.

 

Zlo je glasno

jer se plaši tišine.

 

Dobrota ćuti

jer zna

da vreme govori

svim jezicima sveta.

 

Neki celog života

skupljaju tuđe greške,

a zaborave

da im sopstvena duša

ostaje praznih ruku.

 

Nije najveći poraz

kada te izdaju.

 

Najveći poraz je

kada zbog njihove tame

zaboraviš

da si bio svetlost.

 

Zato ne nosim kamen

za tuđe puteve.

 

Nosim srce.

 

Jer kamen

potone u prvoj reci,

a srce,

ako ostane čisto,

prepliva i večnost.

 

 

NATAŠA RADANOVIĆ