Life on a Thread
written by: Irma Kurti
Our life is hanging on a thread,
but we don’t realize it at all.
We argue with one another and
remain prisoners of rancor.
We waste days doing nothing.
With meaningless words we
fill the hours. Those connect
us like spider webs with the
minutiae of others’ lives.
We think time is unlimited,
the world or life is infinite.
In an instant, we see the
thread vibrating. It is so
thin, ready to break.
Then, we want to change all,
fall in love with the moment,
wake up our forgotten loves,
erase our old resentments.
But the thread is cut; it’s too late . . .
Irma Kurti is an Albanian poetess, writer, lyricist, journalist, and translator. She has won numerous literary prizes and awards in Italy and abroad. She has published 29 books in Albanian, 25 in Italian and 15 in English. She is also the translator of 20 books of different authors and of all her books in Italian and English. Her books have been translated and published in 16 countries.
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