Allow me to steal a smile — Two Poems by Jasna Gugić
These two poems by Jasna Gugić offer meditations on sorrow, resilience and the beauty redeemed from our human existence. With imagery evoking autumn rains, scattered thoughts and quiet desperation, each of Gugić's verses mirrors the struggle to hold on to fleeting moments between hope and despair. T
TEAR
I feel a tear coming on
In grey clouds
That smell of autumn rain,
Crying
And my poem brings disquiet
Into my frayed thoughts
Scattered over the whiteness of imagination.
Sorrow comes with autumn drops
And its smell is hideous
And sticky like resin.
After all, only ache remains
Like a seal impressed
In the middle of the heart,
Quenched with your tear of remorse.
If you should ever come back
Allow me to steal a smile
From your face
And chase away all the sorrows of this world.
LIFE
This life is
soaked with tears
and the words are too small
to pronounce
all life in an instant
and my love
hidden in the corners of solitude.
This life is
soaked with tears
and the pain of the past
is stronger
than the impending ecstasy
in the kiss of the night
and my escape is stronger
than the strength of your will.
This life is
soaked with tears
and the joy gets crushed
by the sorrow of the desperate
and disbelief in
a new longing.
This life is
soaked with tears
but today there is a smile
in my eyes
so don't walk away
from my smile .
Don't let the grief
to put out these embers
at least sometimes
when I forget
that this life is soaked with tears.
