Master of children’s small fingers
\n& of the indestructible hair of girls
\n& of the transparent shields of the gendarmes –<\/p>\n
today I saw videos of children with broken heads
\n& fingers broken, I saw girls dragged by their shiny
\n& indestructible hair by gendarmes with shields transparent<\/p>\n
as your indestructible light, I saw
\nindestructible teeth broken, indestructible bodies
\nshattered, I saw the blood made by you<\/p>\n
splattering in the world made by you
\n& there was still so much beauty in it
\n& it is exactly this that mashes me.<\/p>\n
Any amount of beauty mashes me.
\nAn indestructible beauty in a world blown into pieces –
\nyour cynicism is divine, indeed.<\/p>\n
I saw a dog licking the bleeding face
\nof his mistress, collapsed under the boots of the gendarmes,
\ncareless to their blows which also crushed his ribs.<\/p>\n
He wagged so happily his tail
\nwhen she raised her grazed hand & patted him,
\nthere was so much indestructible light around him,<\/p>\n
for him the evil only passed accidentally through the world.
\nA cop with a high visor, a blond & pure child,
\ncame running & hit her again.<\/p>\n
Master, I sometimes tell myself you only passed accidentally
\nthrough the history of the world you made, just as we pass
\nonly accidentally through the poems we write.<\/p>\n
And that it is of your indestructible & luminous beauty
\nthat the hardest transparent shields are made.
\nAnd that the happiest of us are wagging our tails,<\/p>\n
licking the bleeding faces of our loved ones. Mashed
\nunder the boots of the seraphim rapid intervention units.
\nTerrorized by the anti-terrorist units of the angels.<\/p>\n
Who to endure so much beauty
\n– and until when
\n– and why.<\/p>\n
You unbelievably gentle master, if I wouldn’t feel sometimes
\nyour harsh tongue licking my bleeding brain,
\nif I wouldn’t see your furry tail sometimes<\/p>\n
wagging happily – everything would be easier
\n& more unbearable. Don’t worry, we’re talking here
\nbetween indestructibles.<\/p>\n
Listen to this poem in the original Romanian below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n