[ALBSA-Info] cast malli

[irma spaho]

Pershendetje Gerta, Etel, Lola, Andi!

CRIES OF A CITY

Night enters the room. Blindfolding my eyes with the laced veil of past. The 
trains of memories break down on remote corners of my distant youth, going 
down the galleries of this wonderful city I once adored, Vlora.

The noise of train fades away with the cries of this city, entering my room, 
stone by stone, fountain by fountain, face by face, seagull by seagull.

I once had a name. Oh, such a beautiful name! They called me the jewel of 
the Adriatic. Now I am nothing. They took everything from me. I have nowhere 
to turn my eyes to. They drained my blood and nailed me to the rocks to 
watch how life was being bruised, and tortured,  and cast adrift.

Today is no death. And no life either. My tears for my drown children tattoo 
the breast of these furious waves, clothing my naked, lifeless body.

I am no longer here. There is no here. The is no Past. Just  a crippled 
Present. And the Future? Already mutilated grimaces at me crawling at her 
feet, little by little.

I once had a name. I voyaged the inexhaustible fountains of life, smiling at 
the greenness of my young body. Now I am a drowsy fountain of tears, 
slipping through the hands of time, hearing the noise of silence when time 
awakens.


The night eats at my body and the day tights my lips into an everlasting 
silence.

I once had a name. I was called Vlora. I am no longer here. My body lies 
restless in the cemetery of memories.
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