Veo
Veo
Hladno zvezdano nebo,
zapenjeno more i severni vetar.
Sam ne znam pravo gde sam,
kuda bih, ni koga čekam
u ovoj noći.
Okrenut ledjima pučini, sporo odmičem
sve dalje u kopno.
Ali kad god se okrenem, vidim:
tamo, ivicom mora,
vitka i bela žena ide.
I stanem i gledam kako
njen veo vetar nosi.
Ne brzo, ne visoko,
ali sve dalje od mene.
(Maj, 1954)
Veil
A cold and starry sky,
Foaming sea and northern wind.
I couldn't say exactly where I am,
Where I'm heading, or whom I await
in this night.
My back to the abyss, I slowly walk away
ever farther inland.
But whenever I turn around, I see:
there, by the sea's shore,
a slender and fair woman passes.
I stop and watch how
her veil is carried in the wind.
Not fast, not high,
but ever farther from me.
(translated by Pavle Ninkovic)