Please, be Generous!

When you are resolved to go,

Let me be already asleep.

Don’t wake me up.

At this instant

I will probably dream just of you –

And you won’t be angry, scandalous,

But bright and in love,

The one you used to be at the very outset.

You were the man who flamed the candlesticks

In the temple of our feelings, weren’t you?

And we were praying, hoping

We would be together forever.

When you are resolved to go,

My bed and my heart would become dark,

But I wouldn’t ask for such a sacrifice –

To stay with me…

                Kremena  Yacheva

                  translated from bulgarian

                Temenuga  Georgieva