Ja volim Nadu

iz knjige Zekina sreća (1990.)

Poems for children

I Love Nada

from the book Bunny's Luck (1990)

Vjerujete mi, dečki,nisam više dijete.Ja volim Naduiz klupe pete!

Believe me now, fellows,I'm not a kid, I repeat:I love Nadafrom the fifth seat!

Spojena srcaja zbog nje rišem,ljubavne pjesmeu teku pišem.

For her I drawtwo hearts joined tight,and in my notebooklove poems I write.

U oblake plaveželje mi lete,a srce drhtii pada u pete.

My wishes fly upwhere the blue clouds meet;my heart starts tremblingand sinks to my feet.

A kada je nema,srce me boli.Često se pitam,je li me voli?

And when she's not there,my heart aches, I'm blue.I often wonder:does she love me too?

I zato mi vjerujte,nisam više dijete.Ja volim Naduiz klupe pete!

So believe me, fellows,I'm not a kid, I repeat:I love Nadafrom the fifth seat!

Translator's note. Nada is a girl's name. Pete means both "fifth" (her desk) and "heels", where his heart sinks; the English plays on "seat" and "feet" instead.