Alexander Androv
Prose

Let’s Take Ourselves Seriously

Alexander Androv

First published: 13.10.2011 · Photo: Mateus Andre / Freepik

Translated from the Bulgarian · Да се вземем на сериозно

Hey!
Heeeeey!

Hey? Come on, make it quiet inside yourself.
Pierce the cocoon of noises and colours,
of words and smiles. Of tears and rain.

Hey?
You can spin the hypnosis wheel too.

You can fold your arms
or whatever it is you do to be alone with yourself.

1, 2, 3…

What do you see?

Desires?

Questions?

A great emptiness?

Pain? Or sun?

Somewhere there

along the curves of the imagination

and further on

in the pure light

and silence

are your soul

fate

and the wings

of the loveliest fairy tales.

Now I’ll count to 3

and then you’ll go back

into the box of your everyday.

1, 2, 3…

Click.