There is a Limit--By Alisa Velaj--Albania

There is a Limit

There is a limit

   Beyond shadows and pine trees 

   Where only you refresh my thoughts 

   There, love and hatred thrive

As if they were tree fruits in spring

Hatred is endless

Endless is love

The dreams come wearing blue and dark colours

Like loves do under the shade of the ballad tree

Containing all the boundaries of the oceans

You wither in the smoke of oblivion

And I feel happy because of your withering

There is a limit devoid of all limits

With no room for reasoning or contemplating or preaching

Then I feel horrified to tell myself

That I have lost you for ever

There is a limitless limit

Evaporating like clouds…

Translated from Albanian language by Ukë Zenel Buçpapaj.

This poem is included in Velaj's poetry book, A Gospel of Light, published by Aquillrellle.

Alisa Velaj was born in the southern port town of Vlora, Albania in 1982. She has been shortlisted for the annual international Erbacce-Press Poetry Award in UK in June 2014. Velaj’s full length book of poetry A Gospel of Light is published by Aquillrellle in June 2015. Her works have appeared in more than 60 print and online international magazines, including: FourW twenty-five Anthology (Australia), The Journal (UK), The Dallas Review (USA), The Linnet's Wings (UK) etc. Her works will soon appear in The Seventh Quarry (UK), Envoi Magazine (UK) etc.