Rain on Rhine
It’s raining on the Rhine, Eliz
We were hidden in a castle
and created a kingdom
I was the king and you were the queen
Now kingdom is ruined…
It’s raining, or is somebody somewhere crying?
Dionysus, god of wine
Pray for us, my lord!
Let me tell you, Eliz, after you went home
I was left alone
in an abandoned castle
Without the queen
Without the kingdom
Scared to death by the silence of walls
Do you remember some people playing music?
In our castle some sirens sang an eternity song
There was snow everywhere and we were playing
Trying to find a rhyme for best line ever written
It’s raining on the Rhine, Eliz
No rhyme
No wine
No kingdom anymore, my Queen
Wherever I go I build kingdoms
Maybe I’ll never love again in this life, Eliz
May be never
Granit Zela
Granit Zela is a contemporary
Albanian poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist and translator. Born in
1979 in Kukes, northeast of Albania, he was graduated from British and American
Studies and Albanian Literature in Tirana. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Literature
on the poetics of the American postmodernist writer Donald Barthelme. Zela has
published poetry volumes “Apocalypse” (2000), “In my Hermetic Studio” and
“Altar Word” (2011). His first poetry volume was awarded “The First Song” prize
by the League of Albanian Writers. Other books include the short stories: “Willing
deaths” (2002), novel “Dodona” (2006) essay volumes: “Letters of Darkness”
(2011) and “Sigh on banality” (2009). He is translator into Albanian of William
Faulkner’s novels “Light in August” and “As I Lay Dying”. Zela is currently
Assistant Professor of English in Department of Liberal Arts, American
University of Middle East, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
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