O nemogućim licima

Svaki te dan iznova poželim upoznati,
govoriti o svemiru i svim čudnim udaljenostima,
o svakom mogućem i nemogućem nebu,
svim mogućim i nemogućim ljubavima.

Znam, reći ćeš da glumim Boga, da izazivam,
da život nije vrijeme i da svijet nije ovo,
da kiša ne može promijeniti more i zemlju,
ali može rastopiti križ i lice.

Svaki te dan iznova poželim zaboraviti,
šutjeti o tome kako sam zalutao, kako me ne vidiš,
o sebičnosti i svojim drugim dimenzijama,
svim mogućim kapima i nemogućim licima.

© Ivan Herceg
Extrait de: Nepravilnosti
V.B.Z. Zagreb, 2007
Production audio: Croatian P.E.N. center

About impossible faces

Every day I want to meet you again,
talk about the universe and all those odd distances,
about every possible and impossible sky,
every possible and impossible love.

I know, you’ll say I’m playing God, that I’m provoking,
that life is not time and the world is not this,
that the rain can’t change the sea and the land,
but it can melt the cross and the face.

Every day I want to forget you again,
not to speak about how I got lost, how you don’t see me,
about selfishness and my other dimensions,
all possible drops and impossible faces.

Translated by Tomislav Kuzmanović