Silence | A poem by Lucian Blaga, 1919

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Silence | A poem by Lucian Blaga, 1919
Radu Belcin, Alter Ego I, 2015
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Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear
moonbeams striking on the windows.

In my chest,
a strange voice is awakens
and a song plays inside me
a longing that is not mine.

They say that ancestors, dead before their time,
with young blood still in their veins,
with great passion in their blood,
with the sun still burning in their blood
come,
come to continue to live
within us
their unfinished lives.

Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear
moonbeams striking on the windows.

O, who knows, soul of mine, in which chest you will sing
you also, after centuries,
in soft ropes of silence,
on harps of obscurity – the drowned longing
and the pleasure of living torn? Who knows?
Who knows?

Lucian Blaga, Silence, 1919

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Lucian Blaga (1895 – 1961) was a Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright,
poetry translator and novelist.
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