What should I focus my energy on?
You are my love,
But poisonous,
You drag me into a luminous darkness,
I indulge in solitude, to contemplate you,
To glorify my love for you – there’s a different kind of light.
But my consciousness rejects it.
Higher things await me.
Should I abandon you?
I have tried so many times,
Seven years are a lot of time.
You won’t go away.
Because of you, I speak not;
I hide from the world, from all that beholds
So I can only behold you in me
An illuminated circle,
Spins my soul endlessly, washed with my love for thee.
Shqipe Palloshi, 26/12/2014