ADEM ABDULLAHU

ADEM ABDULLAHU

We Are Sinners

There is no perfect one

in this world.

Sinners

we are since ever.

Therefore, me and you,

neither of us

should ask for perfection.

We are human beings

with lots of flaws,

the desire for going up

it’s enough for us.

We should be content

with a little piece of humanity

in this world full of

absurd.

Look For My Body

If your telephone

stops ringing

and

if  I stop writing you letters

take a garland

in your hand and go

everywhere

to look for my body.

To Walk In The Fire

There is no light in sight.

I see left,

I see right.

Up – down

forward – backwards.

A flame on the left

I should walk

on the flame.

A fire on my right,

my feet will

burn.

Hell of a hell?

If I cross on the flame

I will burn

I will get wounds!

If I walk on the fire

my tissues and muscles will burn!

It’s not easy for me!

Fire is fire,

it burn and it turns thing into ashes.

There is no easy choice between two fires,

between the darkness and the abyss.

Killing The Hope

I was hurt so many times.

I was murdered many times

through the history…

All those murders

were physical

were spiritual.

And now

in the new century,

the murders of many kinds

are still killing me…

I haven’t seen more fierce murder

than this present one…

My dreams

are now murdered,

my hope

My hope

is being murdered!

Dear God,

punish the murderers

of all kinds.

Punish to the last one,

the murderers

of my hope

and my dreams.

Free Soul

Do have a soul of a slave

or a spirit

of a free man?

The question is now!

If I had a soul of a slave

I would have been given up

by now.

I want freedom

no matter what

so I couldn’t be

the one with a soul of a slave.

I want

peace, tranquility,

balance.

The colors of the world

of the soul of a slave

are different than

those of a free spirit….

The free

spirit

stands against all the difficulties

and looks for solution.

I just want

to gain victory

over my enemies,

the ones

that are against freedom.

This soul

looks at

the horizon

of the solution

and is not complaining on anything.

Looks

as the road of respect

and the look

towards the world

with realistic colors.

The manifestation of the vision

of the free spirit

is manifestation of light.

The determinacy

is awakening the feeling

of the free spirit

and the success…

with the head up

- like normal

free people.

The truth helps

the awakening

of the free spirit…!

If there are

determinacy

there are ways

to reach for the freedom!

ADEM ABDULLAHU

ADEM ABDULLAHU (10.09.1964) lives in Shipkovica, Tetovo, Republic of North Macedonia. He is a member of Macedonian Writers’ Association since 2016 and also of the Albanian Writers’ Association in Macedonia. He holds BA (Faculty of Education – Skopje) and MA degree (Faculty of Philosophy, State University in Tetovo) in Pedagogy and he is working as primary school teacher in Shipkovica. He has received many literary awards such as: third prize on the Karadak’s Meetings in Kumanovo, second prize awarded by the Macedonian Teachers’ Association, third prize on the Poetry Evenings in Korcha, etc. He acts as a publisher of the children’s magazine “Ulberi Plus” (“Rainbow Plus”) in Tetovo for more than 20 years and also as translator from Macedonian and Bulgarian into Albanian language. His work is translated and published in: Macedonian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Italian, and English language. He is program director of the poetry manifestation “Poetry Meetings of the Children’s Writers” since 2015. Adem Abdullahu has published: “On the Vertical Line” (1993, poetry), “The Military Devision of the Letters” (1994, a poem for children), “A Sea and a Castle” (1996, short stories and fables), “The Tears of the Flowers” (1997, poetry), “The Third Floor” (1999, short stories), “Painful Beauty” (1999, prose), “Thirty Six Short Stories and a Tale” (2000), “The Three Men” (2002, children’s book of drama plays),  “Soil and Love” (2003, poetry), “Lake Shore” (2000, poetry), “The Silver Smiles of Love” (2007, poetry in Macedonian and Romanian language), “Let’s Kill the Silence” (2013, poetry), “The Educational Aspects of the Poetry of Odhise K. Grillo” (2014, scientific article), “Selection of poetry” (2015).