Tonight is the last one again - Vagif Samadoghlu

Tonight is the last one again,

Tomorrow the last morning,

The last wind is blowing the last sail,

The boat is sailing hardly...

This tree is the last one,

The last wind is blowing,

The last devil has again

Blocked the last way...

Now the last steps

Will tread the last street,

The last dark yellow people

Will again turn around the corner...

The last child is born,

The last man passes away,

And again there’s someone crying,

And someone laughing for the last time...

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Vagif Samadoghlu (1939 - 2015) Azerbaijan

Translated by Aynur Hajiyeva

Source: Poems from the book “Far Green Island”