There are strolling on the world different people, Dreaming about a miracle - Will it be or will it not be... Kocking - on this evening Suddenly I shall notice you, - That is the miracle! Gallopping in the sky there is a rider - a cloud Weeps with rain and hail - That means, one must be on the earth. Here are not only a few miracles There are - stars fallen down - That is the miracle! Do you know, that I with the miracle communicate in an off-hand way: Do you want, blink with your eyes - At once under the firmament! I know an incantation - Now, say: "I wish", - That is the miracle!
© Elisabeth Jelinek. Translation, 2018