Saša Milivojev - REFUGEES

Saša Milivojev is a famous writer, poet, journalist columnist and political analyst... One of the most read columnists in Serbia, he is the author of five books, and numerous columns published in various daily newspapers. He is the author of the novel „The Boy from the Yellow House“ and of political speeches. His work has been translated into around twenty languages across the world.

Saša Milivojev

Saša Milivojev

REFUGEES

Happy and all smiles
Greteful to the Skies
In love crazily
We sang blissfully
Life we worshiped
Of what was yet to come we dreamed
Never in a million years we'd fear
The hell that was becoming was near

All we have come by
Gone in a blink of an eye
You plundered everything from us
Cursed criminals

Thirsting for blood savages
Tore our hearts into pieces
Slayed a child in a crib
Brothers and sisters to the gallows
In petrol set to flames
Barbarians
Shattered all our dreams
Crumbled all to dust
Extinguished the sun

Darkness
Gruesome fear
For death we were escaping
Hungry and shoeless
Through this world so heartless
Seeking the inconsolable salvation

Upon that hellish flight
From that gruesome war
We came across some folk divine
Who planted a seed of hope

Once upon a border crossing
We were battered
For help when we were seeking

In the forest of the howling wolves
We were hiding
Embraced by the flames of fire
We were warming

The new day was dawning
You were woken by the pain within
we cut the umbilical cord you and I
When we heard our son's first cry
As once we cried the tears of joy
Illuminated by the sun
Happiness incarnated
The new life has begun.

Saša Milivojev

Translated by

Ljubica Yentl Tinska