Memory | Jasna Gugic

The rain began singing
with my pain
and rustled
the leaves.
Another autumn
without you
in the shadow
of endless years.
Even today after
one hundred years of solitude
I listen to your words
to rejoice
my silence
but hear no
reply.
Your lips went
silent
and your eyes closed
forever
in the most sorrowful August
of my life.
And never again
will you
hear the rain crying
with my tears
as I remove the
leaves
from your grave
with my hand.
Quietly in silence
I kiss your sleeping eyes,
my poet of life,
and the temples of
silence
where you are
present,
always present.

Jasna Gugic is the Vice-President of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS, P.L.O.T.S USA the Creative Magazine Ambassador for Croatia, Ambassador of Elite Arab Creative Union of The Royal House – Lebanon, Global Ambassador of Literacy and Culture for the Asih Sasami Indonesia Global Writers and a member of Angeena International, a non-profit organization for peace, humanity, literature, poetry, and culture. She has published three collections of poems. The first two collections are bilingual: one is Croatian-English and the other is Croatian-Polish. The third collection consists of a single poem translated into sixty languages of the world and she is also co-editor of the anthology, Compassion-Save the World, one poem was written by 130 world poets. Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature and her work has been translated into several world languages