EXACT TIME
On the village square
a monument stands,
old as the bones
of the warriors
buried under it.
Over it is the Sun.
On the hardtop around
the shadows of time
measuring every day.
Sundial.
Telling about heroic times
made by the heroes
and measured by
the power of Time
against the prowess of Truth.
© Maxim Maximov
© Bojidara Pavlova, translated from Bulgarian
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© LiterNet Publishing House, 23.02.2021
Maxim Maximov. Bravado. Varna: LiterNet, 2021
Other publications:
Maxim Maximov. Bravado. Los Angeles: Triumvirate Publications, 1999.