Ljubica Katić

 

Ljubica Katić

 

A Thief In The Night

 

Don't build bridges that you're just going to tear down.

They aren't for you to build.

You only know how to squash love.

You aren't meant for a life of two.

 

Don't seek the one who will give you love

For you're not able to love back.

Better that you keep to yourself

No one would ever wish for that kind of love.

 

Don't steal someone's thunder.

It will come at a price

A thief in the night isn't invisible. 

Eventually he gets caught and everything is revealed.

 

 

 

I Miss You

 

Tonight I miss you like never before,

I miss laying my head upon your chest.

Tonight I miss you making me smile,

I miss your cold hands making me warm.

 

I miss you wiping the tears from my eyes,

So their salt leaves no mark.

I also miss those mornings a long time ago,

When we were getting ready for vacation.

 

I miss you like dried flowers miss the water,

Taking one last breath.

Even they sometimes flourish

When watered with lots of love.

 

I miss you.

 

 

The Moon

 

The full Moon is lighting up the sky.

People say it disrupts dream,

makes you restless when you're trying to sleep.

What kind of challenges is it preparing?

 

Maybe it's not about the Moon,

but a secret hidden inside us.

The Moon is not that weird,

to not let us fall asleep.

 

LJUBICA KATIĆ

 

LJUBICA KATIĆ was born in 1957 in Montenegro, where she lived and worked until 2008, when she moved to Split, Croatia, where she lives and works until today.  She has been writing since early childhood, children´s, love, haiku, spiritual and social poetry. She has won many awards and recognitions. Her poems have been translated into many foreign languages and represented in over seventy joint collections, seven of which are anthologies. In May 2020 her first independent collection was published, a bilingual Croatian-English edition entitled ‟Between Love and Pain‟. She is a member of many literary societies, including the World Union of Poets from Italy.