Ivan Benak

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

Ljubavne pjesme

Nevjernica!

iz knjige Stihom kroz život (2010.)

Love poems

Faithless One!

from the book Through Life in Verse (2010)

Ugledah te sinoć s ljubavnikom tvojim,ozarena lica gdje mu piješ oči.Osvrnuh se gnjevno u toj strašnoj noći.Tužan pođoh dalje ja sa bolom svojim.

Last night I saw you with your lover, face alight,and how you drank him in, drank deep into his eyes;I turned in anger then, beneath those dreadful skies,and sadly went my way, with my pain, into the night.

Ljubila si njemu žarko oči snene.Najsretnije biće on je tada bio,da si prije mene, on to nije snio.Ljubiš sada njega kao sinoć mene.

You kissed his drowsy eyes with ardour burning bright;the happiest of beings he was, there and then —that you had first been mine was far beyond his ken.You kiss him now the way you kissed me just last night.

Sjećaš li se riječi kada si se klela?Da nikada nikog ljubit nećeš moći,da ti žarku svjetlost ne vidjele oči,ako budeš ikad drugog ljubit htjela!

Do you remember what you swore, the words you said?That you could never love another all your days,and may your eyes not see the sunlight's burning raysif ever you should want to love someone instead!

Ljubavi za tebe više ne postoji.Poljupcima svojim širiš samo laži.Drugi je od mene sada tebi draži.U grudima mojim bolno srce stoji.

My love for you exists no more; it's torn apart;with all your kisses you spread nothing now but lies;another man, not I, is dearer in your eyes.Within my breast, in pain, stands still my aching heart.

Valpovo, 1976.

Valpovo, 1976