Neki dani

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Nekih dana brinem
nekih dana sam sretan
nekih dana
gotovo da ne poludim.
Nekih dana,
nekih dana, mnogo sjajnije:
kada pogledaš
što ti se sprema!

Nekih dana kažeš,
o, ne ja, nikada - !
Nekih dana kažeš
blagoslovljen Bog uvijeke.
Nekih dana, kažeš,
proklet da je, i nek umre
i nek’ dođe dan kada ćeš se
s tim lažima hrvati.
Nekih dana se boriš,
a onda nekih dana uzdišeš,
a nekih dana
se ni ne pomakneš.
Nekih se dana goniš
sam sa sobom.

Ne znam, sestro moja,
što to govorim,
kao što to ne zna nitko,
ukoliko se ne moli.
Znam da je ljubav jedini odgovor
i ljubavnik na kratkoj uzici
jedini plesač.

Kad ljubavnik danas sklizne s uzice
mreža koja ga sputava je naša molitva,
i to ne Bogu nepoznatom,
već jedno drugom - :
padajući smrtnik je naš brat!

Nekih dana odlaziš,
nekih dana žaluješ,
nekih dana gotovo ni nevjeruješ.
Neki dani vjeruju u tebe,
neki dani ne,
neki dani vjeruju u tebe
no tebi nije stalo.
Nekih dana brinem,
nekih dana sam lud,
nekih dana više od sreće.
Nekih dana, neki dani,
više od sjaja,
svjedoče,

o onome što ti se sprema!

James Baldwin

(Preveo Darko Kotevski)

Some Days

by James Baldwin

Some days worry
some days glad
some days
more than make you mad.
Some days,
some days, more than shine:
when you see what's coming
on down the line!

Some days you say,
oh, not me never - !
Some days you say
bless God forever.
Some days, you say,
curse God, and die
and the day comes when you wrestle
with that lie.
Some days tussle
then some days groan
and some days
don't even leave a bone.
Some days you hassle
all alone.

I don't know, sister,
what I'm saying,
nor do no man,
if he don't be praying.
I know that love is the only answer
and the tight-rope lover
the only dancer.

When the lover come off the rope today,
the net which holds him is how we pray,
and not to God's unknown,
but to each other - :
the falling mortal is our brother!

Some days leave
some days grieve
some days you almost don't believe.
Some days believe you,
some days don't,
some days believe you
and you won't.
Some days worry
some days mad
some days more than make you glad.
Some days, some days,
more than shine,
witnesses,

coming on down the line!