Saša Milivojev - THE PAIN OF THE WORLD (WELTSCHMERZ)
Saša Milivojev Saša Milivojev THE PAIN OF THE WORLD WELTSCHMERZ ("WORLD PAIN") In this century withal Rivers of blood still flow Bombs echo Children are being killed Heads are being severed Millions are starving Diseases are devouring And you are singing The gallows are trembling In the valley of the fallen In the salty tears With our putrescent sores We fall prey to the crows Our festering entrails For the starving wolves A shattered house Little boy is weeping Over the body of his Father That forever now is sleeping Schools Temples and bridges bleeding bloodstained wedding guests are screaming Little white coffins Maternal howls Above Uranus Hear the painful growls Delirious poets are prattling And not a word are you uttering They blinded you When they raped your daughter Strangled ‘er with the wire They abducted your brothers Tortured in the cellar Shattered their fingers With ferrous clubs With a saw agape their skulls Their legs wagon...