My Drops of Blood Become Stars… — Else Lasker-Schüler

21 August 20201 MIN READ

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) Albanian version by Eda Zari Abdul Antinous Your slenderness flows like dark jewellery. O you, my wild midnight sun, kiss my heart, my red-beating earth. How wide your eyes are opened — you have seen the heavens so near, so d

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Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) Albanian version by Eda Zari

Abdul Antinous

Your slenderness flows like dark jewellery. O you, my wild midnight sun, kiss my heart, my red-beating earth.

How wide your eyes are opened — you have seen the heavens so near, so deep.

And upon your shoulder I built my country — where are you?

The road hesitates, as your foot does — my drops of blood become stars…

You — I love you, I love you.

EDA ZARI

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