TO ONE LENT TO REALITY

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Suffice it not a bit (oh, our noble

deficiency) that the mirror

reflecting your certainty

be the same as you

Suffice it not just a bit

In a silent humbleness

acts your heart. Treasury full of wonders

of which they have found only love

Around it reason, master of the senses

summons always a chase

Do you still hear those voices?

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MELIKA SALIHBEGOVIĆ, 1978.

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You defend yourself from their call by transparency
in which, drawn before you
even entered that body to
lend yourself to reality
patiently awaits for you your face

Fluid veil of Unity

And when you clean the mirror
so that no trace
of your breath makes it hazy, the mirror and
the looking at it will again
be one body
of Essentiality

You will have no more need of words
They are here only a slender arc of the bridge
a path between perfection
and our noble insufficiency

And how would you know you yourself are the mirror
if you had not looked therein at yourself
And if you, sinful, had not sometimes
so passionately
desired to smash it

(Sarajevo, January, 1982.)

* The poem, i.e. manuscript of the poetry collection, was "arrested" on March 23, 1983. with its Authoress (now Salihbeg Bosnawi).

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