"Ladder To Heaven" by Marin Sorescu
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Translated from the Romanian by and published in "Shadows and Voices of the Carpathians" by:
Constantin Roman.
Note:
"Scara La Cer" was the last poem written by
Marin Sorescu before he died in 1996.
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A silk thread spun by a spider
Is hanging from the ceiling
Just above my bed.

Every day I notice it
Descending lower.
Now I am even offered
The ladder to Heaven - I say

It comes from ‘up there’.

Although I had lost weight to the point
Where I am only the spectre of my former self
I believe that my body
May be too heavy
For this delicate ladder.

You, soul of mine, I think that you ought to go first.
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter!.

 		 
   




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