CHILDREN OF THE WAR

perhaps it’s not so frightening

maybe it’s not such a tragedy

we were being born everywhere - in the field

in the trenches in the cellars of strangers

at gas stations and on the roads

in the rivers and even in the prison

the pain is the same everywhere

we have endured it and will endure it again

and this war will pass, without passing us by

but life will be born

on and on through our wombs

without asking if we want this

not caring what happens to our bodies

when it leaves them

the seed of immortality sprouts in us 

providing for God’s eternal return

Translated by Hristo Dimitrov / Edited by Tom Edward Phillips