A bride’s necklace

I knocked at the gate

Of a leaf

Because in that slaughter, in the absence of God

It was the only beautiful

And healthy life.

And it was trembling

Like the leaves

In my home mountains

When girls passed through the forest

On their way of becoming a bride.

Leaf, take me with you

Make me feel

A little better

Take this whit of life out of me,

Take me home

Don’t leave me scattered in a square

Don’t leave me wasted

In a crazy, unfaithful world

Where there is no God

I’ve taken the forest way

Along the den of the wolf

And I’ve reached in a rocky, shining place

And there behind a high, white cliff

There was a lot of grass

And in the grass….. a necklace

It glittered beautifully in the thick grass

The necklace which I wore as a bride

And happy, I bent to raise it

God, thank you

As I’ve returned home

And I shall be a bride again

My soul has quieted

The wings of my heart have soothed

Now they are preparing to repose

In the forest of my childhood

Forest of Relief

With bride’s necklaces

In the thick grass

In the sacred mountains, near my village

From home

Birds sing, wolves roar!

I’m with my people

And I shall walk with them

Into the forest with thick grass

With white bridegroom’s  shirts

And bride’s necklaces

Sacred forest, near my village

From home.