Коан 4

I want time to flow  slowly,
like this broad  damed river
Who's watching it  here?
Who's noticing its flow?
People in the cars, buses and trains
cross it through the bridges.
Nobody want to look at the river
None can see it, taking for grunted its flow
And their times fly rapidly
and their lives flow away
 It's hard to be calm and placid  here
 but without the cerenity there's no wisdom.
 So I'd better travel  to seaside
 There's no better place than  Jadran.
 There's pure water,
 there grapes are as sweet as honey,
 There's autumn, which is called
 "it's neither summer no yet winter "
 I know there time would be slowing down
 because breathing could be natural again.
 There would be the tiny smile on my lips
 and no passersby would think
 I'm weird or crazy.
 There's heavens where there's no fuss,
 where the sun falls to the ground
 this a special angle.
 Here was once and is still  Renaissance.
 Here they were able to write first novels in the Slavic language
 when only few Britons could read letters.
 I would listen to their mother tongue,
 their ancestors brought  from the Carpathians.
 I'd be drinking young wine breathing  sea air
 I would be feeling as the flow of my life
 seep into  stones, sand and water ...