Life is

Missed trains,

love at first sight,

coughing up the gains,

gaining the coughed-up,

singing known songs,

adding tones to new ones,

building secret

islands in the future,

working in the present,

losing the lost.

Translated by Tom Phillips

The original Bulgarian text was published in:  ‘Dear Passengers‘ (2018), Izdatelstvo za poezia DA, Sofia, Bulgaria.