Ivan Benak

pučki pjesnik · folk poet  ·  Sopje 1933. – Valpovo 2015.Sopje 1933 – Valpovo 2015

Ljubavne pjesme

Dao sam ti boli

Love poems

I Gave You Pain

Nježnost sam ti htio dati.Moje te srce još voli.Umjesto ljubavi moje,ja tebi sam dao boli.

Tenderness I meant to give you,and my heart still loves you so.But instead of my affection,all I gave to you was woe.

Srce sam tvoje ranio,htio sam svojom te zvati,grudima boli nanio,a želeći ljubav dati.

I have wounded your dear heart,wished that you'd be mine to claim,brought your breast its pain and smart,though to give love was my aim.

Da te još mogu voljeti,vjeruj mi ja nisam znao.I pored tolikog htijenja,ja nisam ti ljubav dao.

That I still could love you, dear,this, believe me, I never knew.And for all my wanting, stillI did not give love to you.

Kazni me, odbaci, prezrii to bih sve prebolio,no, nikada nemoj reći,da nisam te ludo volio.

Punish, cast me off, and scorn me:all of that I could live through;but you must not ever saythat I did not madly love you.

Valpovo, 1980.

Valpovo, 1980