09.10.2021
Vagrant Fireflies
When the thick darkness
goes down in the city,
fireflies eager for freedom,
we leave the slums.
Without a goal, we walk
and under a street lamp,
when we don't meet the patrol,
we sing the song:
We are like fireflies,
we shine in darkness,
slaves of a brutal world,
we are the flowers of evil.
If our heart wants to cry,
we have to smile
dancing on the sidewalks
as long as the moon is there.
~ ~
Pale moon, only you
see our youth
withering more every night
like a flower without sun.
But if destiny will break us
in the heart the song,
only the courage will kiss us
in the shade of the bastion.
We are like fireflies,
we shine in darkness,
slaves of a brutal world,
we are the flowers of evil.
If our heart wants to cry,
we have to smile
dancing on the sidewalks
as long as the moon is there.
~ ~
If our heart wants to cry,
we have to smile
dancing on the sidewalks
as long as the moon is there...
14.09.2021
Licurici vagabonzi
Când e întunericul mai gros,
licurici coboară în oraș
dornici de libertate,
noi plecăm din mahalale.
O luăm la drum fără țintă
și sub un felinar,
când nu întâlnim patrula,
cântăm cântecul:
Noi suntem ca licuricii,
strălucim în întuneric,
sclavii unei lumi brutale,
noi suntem florile răului.
De ne vrea inima să plângă,
noi zâmbim în continuare
dansând pe trotuar
câtă vreme este lună.
~ ~
Lună palidă, doar tu
vezi tinerețea noastră cum
se ofilește în fiecare noapte
ca o floare fără soare.
Dar dacă destinul ne va rupe
în inimă cântecul,
doar curajul ne va săruta
la umbra bastionului.
Noi suntem ca licuricii,
strălucim în întuneric,
sclavii unei lumi brutale,
noi suntem florile răului.
De ne vrea inima să plângă,
noi zâmbim în continuare
dansând pe trotuar
câtă vreme este lună.
~ ~
De ne vrea inima să plângă,
noi zâmbim în continuare
dansând pe trotuar
câtă vreme este lună...
05.12.2020
The safebox
I'm looking for a safebox,
can you guess what for?
I have no stocks,
no capital income,
I don't even own a suit!
But I need the safe,
I must absolutely have it!
I have to put there all the letters
my dear Rosina wrote me,
a small-sized portrait
fo the dear dearly departed aunt Sofia,
a lock of hair,
a coral-horn,
and the beak of a parrot
we lost in 1923!
Pe-re-pe-re-pe-re-ppe-ré...
Those are souvenirs that only in a safe,
only there can you keep them.
When they leave me nothing to put on bread,
I suck it up and stay quiet, I don't complain...
I know, life is tragic,
but the safebox... that, they must give it to me!
I have to put in there all the letters
my dear Rosina wrote me,
that scrap of wax
stuck in the candleholder,
a ragdoll 05.12.2020
Pizza
I met you
lips as red as a cherry
I met you
skin smelling like rose petals
I met you
I wanted to give you,
even paying for it in installments,
a diamond
of 14 carats!
But you wanted pizza,
pizza, pizza,
topped with tomato
topped with tomato
But you wanted pizza,
pizza, pizza,
topped with tomato
pizza, and nothing else!
I brought you
where you can find the best restaurants,
where you can eat as the sea is singing,
I brought you
Enthused by such a setting,
I ordered
a roasted mullet
But you wanted pizza,
pizza, pizza,
topped with tomato
topped with tomato
But you wanted pizza,
pizza, pizza,
topped with tomato
pizza, and nothing else!
I married you
the neighbors and all the relatives
were paying us a lot compliments
I married you
Suddenly,
among invitations and clapping,
it came:
a 5-tier cake!
But you wanted pizza,
pizza, pizza,
topped with tomato
topped with tomato
But you wanted pizza,
pizza, pizza,
topped with tomato
pizza, and nothing else!