After 10 Years

    Today we will meet --
    after ten years,
    was it yesterday
    when we were twenty two.
    separated with hope
    here in this grey square.

    We'll meet again --
    after ten years,
    so each of us
    can share with the rest
    our daily hard-won struggles
    the cause of sleepless nights
    and what we've lived through

    Today we'll meet --
    after ten years:
    trains leave
    from all directions.
    but one of them remains
    at a faraway station
    twenty two again

      Mihail Belchev
      Translated by Anna Naydenova
      Translation Copyright 2000