Lullaby

USPAVANKA
Mak Dizdar
How delicate and fragile you are
And how beautiful and pure
Like every child at birth
Your hair silken and bedewed
Like the leaves of a plants young stem in April
Your lips are rose buds still undeveloped
Hands are the blue intimation of dawn
Legs as though you have none, you poor thing
Those are two lilies only for caressing
So how will you come into the world so tiny
So unguarded
That is why we shall never part, my darling
Never shall we say good-by
Never body of my body
Soul of my soul
Never
I know
You will carry me in your heart
For I gave you my heart and everything around my
heart
You will carry me as long as you will be
Greet the birth of day
And the appearance of stars
As long as you will be greet the budding treetops
And grieve the falling leaves
You will live even when your eyes close
You will live in your children
In your children and the children of their children
You will live
Live
It will be known we were moments of being
A grain of sand in the shoal
A spark in the fire
A blade in the grass
Of eternity
How delicate and fragile
You are
And you must live
You must live among people, yet you have no words
You must live among wolves, yet you have no teeth
And how will you discern a man from a wolf
A wolf from a man
Your hands are the blue callings of dawn
With them you need to grapple
To do battle in skirmishes
With serpent miracles within which the dragon dwells
So let them grow quickly
Let them grow stronger and even more quickly
Your legs are two delicate lilies for caressing
And I will ask you with the dew from my most beautiful
flower
I will tell to you the most beautiful story
Of this and that other world
That you be ready for sweet
Dreams and for sleeplessness
In the heart of the tight circles
In the thorns of the long
Roads

Mak Dizdar
Kako si njean i krhak
I kako si lijep i ist
Kao svako dijete kad se rodi
Kosa ti je zasvilila i orosila
Kao lie mlade stabljike u aprilu
Usne su tvoje pupoljak rue jo nerazvijen
Ruke kao plavi nagovjetaj zore
Noge o jadnie kao do i nema
To su dva ljiljana samo za tetoenje
Pa kako e u svijet poi tako sitan
Kako nezatien
Nikad se zbog toga neemo rastati mili
Nikad se neemo rastati
Nikada tijelu mog tijela
Duo moje due
Nikada
Znam
Ti e me nositi u srcu
Jer sam ti srce i sve oko srca dala
Ti e me nositi dokle god bude
Pozdravljao raanje dana
I javljanje zvijezda
Dokle god bude pozdravljao pupanje kroanja
I alio padanje lia
Ti e ivjeti i kad ti se oi sklope
ivjet e u tvojoj djeci
U tvojoj djeci i djeci njihove djece
ivjet e
ivjeti
Znae se da smo bili trenuci trajanja
Zrnce u pijesku na sprudu
Varnica u ognju
Vlat u travi
Vjenosti
Kako si
Njean i krhak
A treba da ivi
Treba da ivi med ljudima a rijei nema
Treba da ivi med vucima a zuba nema
A kako e tek razlikovati ovjeka i vuka
Vuka i ovjeka
Ruke su tvoje plavi dozivi zore
A njima valja da se hvata u kotac
Da dijeli bojeve na razmirjima
Sa zmijskim udima u kojima ivi adahaka
Zato nek rastu brzo
Nek rastu i jaaju bre
Noge su tvoje dva njena ljiljana za tetoenje
Al ja u te pitati rosom sa mog najlepeg cvijeta
Ja u ti priati najljepu priu
Ovog i onoga svijeta
Da bude spreman za snove
U srcu tijesnih krugova
U trnju dugih
Drumova
Usta su tvoja mladi pupoljci

Your lips are young buds

I will feed you water from the beak of a swallow
That you grow teeth to curse the fiend
That you coo for the good-hearted guest
It is wise to be silent in life
But if you speak a word
May it be heavy as every truth
May it be said for man

Hraniu te vodicom iz kljuna laste

Da ozubati za kletvu na zlotvora
Da progue za dobroduna namjernika
U ivotu treba mudro da uti
Al rije ako rekne
Neka bude teka kao svaka istina
Neka bude reena za ovjeka

You came here

Where it was most unwelcome to come
Here where it was most insane to arrive
Here where it was most heroic to appear
Because here one does not live only to be alive
Here one lives only to die
Here one also dies
In order to live

Doao si ovdje
Gdje je najnezahvalnije bilo doi
Ovdje gdje je najlue bilo stii
Ovdje gdje je ipak najjunakije bio nii
Jer ovdje se ne ivi samo da bi se ivjelo
Ovdje se ivi samo da bi se umrlo
Ovdje se i umire
Da bi se ivjelo

Now is the end of the song

Now are my words completed
Sleep
Sweetly
We will never part my darling
Never body of my body
Never soul of my soul
Never
Because you need
To continue your life
It is good you continue life on earth

Sada je kraj pjesme

Sada je moje slovo cijelo
Plaji
Baji
Nikad se neemo rastati mili
Nikada tijelu mog tijela
Nikada duo moje due
Nikada
Jer treba
Da ivot produi
ivot na zemlji valja da produi