IT IS NOT A WORD THAT IS LIED TO
Are you the man
who kissed me in the rain,
whose name I don’t even know…
Are you the one to whom,
I,
enraptured,
spoiled my rhymes…
You listened to me,
found yourself in them,
in cold mornings
and quiet evenings,
and I looked for you
in every verse
and every word…
You couldn’t
stop me…
I was surprised that out of
so many words
I didn’t tell a single lie…
I was very careful
not to say I LOVE YOU,
because it has a special charm…
It is not a word that is said,
that is lied to…
That word is in the heart,
in anxiety, in the soul…
It is kept among the mute…
It is not spoken,
it suffocates you,
while it is in the chest…
It remains hidden and waits silently
when we are far away and alone,
resonating within us like an echo,
it is felt in the darkness.
Milka J.Šolaja
Belgrade
MILKA J. ŠOLAJA was born in Korenica, in the Republic of Croatia. Lives and works in Belgrade. She has been writing poetry since her high school days.
So far, she has published 11 independent poetry collections: “If I Were a Bird”, “Dreams in the Mirror”, “Between Reality and Sleep”, “Traces Will Remain”, “Black and White World”, “I Think Your Hands Are Yours”, “A Tear from Stone”, “I Was Born Alone” and two co-authored poetry collections: “I Dream with Verses” and “My Dreams Written in Verses”, published by “Kulture Snova” from Zagreb.
The eleventh poetry collection “I Am This I Am” is in preparation for publication, as well as the autobiographical novel “Walking on the Edge”. She writes love, homeland, descriptive, reflective, spiritual and poetry for children. Translated into English, Hungarian, Bengali, Spanish, Greek, Odia, Arabic…
Award-winning, represented in many anthologies, monographs, collections and magazines, both domestic and international. Some poems are composed. Member of: Serbian Writers’ Association, Literary and Artistic Union “Vlaho Bukovac” from Split, “Culture of Dreams” from Zagreb, Institute for Children’s Literature in Belgrade. She is also a member of several International Groups, Forums and Academies for Poetry and Literature, where she has received a large number of awards.