To Marina Vladi
I love you while it lasts. I want to be exposed! Stop fate and void the past: I’ve always been opposed to "after’s" and "ago’s." In tears or in bliss, I burn within your glow. What’s gone - I do not miss. What fate would bring? - don’t know. I’d come to you wherever, whatever it would take! I only beg you never to mar it by mistake: don’t ask me to avow, don’t question what I feel - if I say: "Love you now," don’t make me add, "and will."
© Anna Kapellan. Translation, 2018