Not Afraid of Fate

Saša Milivojev - NOT AFRAID OF FATE Again I am born again First breath Pain Crying Again I see arrays of colours Everything has changed What madness It’s like a fairy tale The taste of mother’s milk I stretch I grow Lost in the sounds of a dream The light plays At the verge of time Crawling on scratched knees When I unknowingly said Momma From a distant memory Walking Going up and down the stairs Eager to try it all Wandering far away in my thoughts Speaking with nature Intoxicated by her melodies And when they yelled at me Don’t do that and that Through life I walked Clairvoyant and blind To kindergarten Where I met friends With bat ears And there I sat alone Not vain But lonesome Lost In my own landscapes And when I burned the colouring books And discovered the sound of the school flute When I felt the strength of written words That heal the darkness I wrote I played and sang Until I fell in love for the first time And woke up again Biljana Marija Tijana Hermina Marina Dragana Sladana Who would think That I loved so much And played music for them First cigarettes and drunkenness Bad company I see myself in the fog When I was a boy Who could not show emotions When I created illusions Of having friends Behind the darkness Friends that know my Secret behind a sigh They laughed behind my back When I painted too In each effort of mine They saw an unsound mind Let it be I fight Not afraid of fate And loving my age Saša Milivojev, 2005. www.sasamilivojev.com