Violet

I send you violets,

while you place a wall of concrete before me.

It is easier to be alone

than to lose both head and sight,

carrying the weight

of others’ betrayed expectations.

Carnations stay in the same place

where once we stood.

You stand there, proud and alone,

as you fall into the abyss.

Velvet and chestnut lie

beneath the shelter of a dream,

while with her you rest in silk.

Lilies—

they long held back the fear.

The carnival inside you

makes you believe the feeling deceives you,

yet you would give it all

for me to be that old one,

alias, as if new.

And that is the story, my friends.

Lola Ibrajter was born on 11.01.1996 in Uzice. She spent her childhood in Nova Varos, where she also completed high school. She studied at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, where she still lives today.

Since early childhood, she has been writing poetry and engaging in drawing and painting. Since 2022, she has been a member of Young Artists of Culture (MUK), where in 2023 her poem titled “Ona” is published for the first time in the poetry anthology “5 to 12 Time for MUK”. Two years later, her poems “Sveto tlo” and “Deo ljudske duše” are published, and that same year the Spanish magazine “AZAHAR” translates her poem “U početku beše reč” into Spanish.