that you were very lucky.

[dahlia_moon]

"Luck in Sarajevo"
Izet Sarajlić

In Sarajevo
in the spring of 1992,
everything is possible:

you go to stand in a bread line
and end up in an emergency room
with your leg amputated.

Afterwards, you still maintain
that you were very lucky.

translated from Serbo-Croat by Charles Simic

Comments

[loki-onyx.livejournal.com]

An admirable attitude, and pretty amazing philosophy and makes you think... <3

[moon-destiny.livejournal.com]

This poem hits pretty close to the chest. I love it for many reasons, for its social commentary; for its simplicity; how it says so much in so few lines and for its "amazing philosophy" definitely.