How Can I Endure The Autumn Poem by Fatos Arapi

How Can I Endure The Autumn



How can I endure the autumn
If my soul is autumn through and through,
The minutes swelled and October
Snuffed them out like candles.

Pale flame of the pyre,
In pain which is no longer even pain
I am a tomb and I alone know
What lies within me.

(1970)

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Translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie
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