When time comes

KAD DOĐE VREME

Kad dođe vreme

Grmnuće

Ova osedela nebesa

Od zakletvi i kletvi

I zasvetleće od starosti

Ove pobijene i usađene krstače

Što nose drevne senke pretka.

I ove bezimene kosti

Što pevno krckaju i

Tabaju im pepeo duše

I ovaj nevidljivi

Negasli žar ognjišta

Koji sja u kopitama konja

Što jure sudbine naše

Kroz osedlane vidike

Sve ove rasute

Oznake i znamenja

Zasijaće jasno

Kostima istorije

Kroz razlistalo vreme.

When time comes

When time comes

There will be thunder

In these gray-haired heavens

From oaths and curses

And there will turn bright of age

These staked and planted crosses

Revealing shadows of ancestors.

And these nameless bones

That hum and crack

Stamp on the ashes of their souls

And the unextinguished ambers of the hearth

That shine in the spurs

Of horses

That drive our destinies

Through saddled vistas

All these scattered

Marks and omens

They’ll burn brightly

In the bones of history

Through blooming time.

                              Translate: Vasa Mihailović