Prijateljstvo

.....Sad sam shvatio: to je prijateljstvo, ljubav prema drugome. Sve

drugo može da prevari to ne može. Sve drugo može

da izmakne i ostavi nas puste, to ne može, jer zavisi od nas

Ne mogu da mu kažem : budi mi prijatelj. Ali mogu da kažem,

biću ti prijatelj.

Ali, bilo ovako ili onako, u njegovo prijateljstvo

nisam mogao sumnjati. Zavolio sam ga, znam po tome

što mi je postao potreban, što nisam zamjerio

ničemu ma šta da je rekao ili učinio, i što mi je sve njegovo

postalo važno.

Ljubav je valjda jedina stvar na svijetu koju ne treba

objašnjavati ni tražiti joj razloge.

Pa ipak to činim, makar samo zato da još jednom

pomenem čovjeka koji je unio toliko radosti

u moj život. Pitao sam ga jednom, kako to da je baš meni

poklonio svoje prijateljstvo.

Prijateljstvo se ne bira, ono biva ko zna zbog čega kao ljubav...

A ništa ja nisam poklonio tebi

već sebi...

...I just understood, that is friendship, the love for someone. Everything

else may deceive this can not. Everything else can

get away and leave us waste, this can not, because it depends on us.

I cannot say to him: be my friend. But I can say,

I shall be your friend.

Be it this way or that, the friendship of his

I could not doubt. I got fond of him, I know it because

he became necessary to me; because I haven't taken amiss

anything, whatever he has said or done, and because everything of his

got important to me.

The love is perhaps the only thing in the world one doesn't need

to explain, or search for it's reasons.

Still, I am doing that, if only to mention again

this man who brought so much joy

to my life. I asked him once, how come that it was me

that he presented his friendship to.

One does not choose the friendship, it happens who knows why like love..

And I presented nothing to you

but to myself...

(Translated by Slobodan Cekic)