Clown People | Faruk Buzhala

Clown time

In this nebula of paradoxes
Man has lost his shadow
Stupid at the crossroads of life
Faces with the dilemma in the head:
Guess which way the shadow went!

Mediocre faces in broken mirrors
They reflect the characters of hypocrites
That snatch everything they see on the ground.

A coin spins in the space of fate
While the clowns are squinting and slobbering
They eagerly await which side she will fall on.

Risk plays with short-sighted people
Until they are busy with the game of chance
They persistently search for its meaning.

This formula was not found for thousands of years
It will still be the same
And man will remain the same as he was
Waiting foolishly at the crossroads of life
With the dilemma in his head: guess
     which way his shadow went!

Into the smoke they go
©2023 Tina Rimbaldo
pencil

We are not bad people!

We smoke cigarettes
while walking down the street
and when we smoke them
we throw on the ground
turning them off with our feet
for a moment
suppressing thoughts.

We are not bad people
we smoke cigarettes one by one
From worries we melt into ashes,
And all this becomes our habit!

We smoke cigarettes
and we know that
Smoking kills
smoking shortens life!

and we do not worry
when we know that
Nothing is eternal
as are not these cigarettes
 which we smoke
while we are slowly being dissolved!

And we smoke cigarettes
sitting in a chair in front of a table
with glances wasted in space
we say to ourselves:
we are not bad people!

Then after we smoke them
 in ashtray we crush them
and as we turn them off,
with them we turn off the thoughts too!

Faruk Buzhala…

…is a well-known poet from Ferizaj, Kosovo, writing in his mother-tongue, Albanian. He was born in 9 March 1968 in Pristina. He is the former manager and leader of “De Rada,” a literary association, from 2012 until 2018, and also the representative of Kosovo to the 100 TPC organization. In addition to poems, he also writes short stories, essays, literary reviews, traveltales, etc. Faruk Buzhala is an organizer and manager of many events in Ferizaj. His poems have been translated to English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Croatian and Chinese, and are published in anthologies. .

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