IAPWA Pegasi FIRST IT WAS YOU THEN CAME OBAMA byBegzad Baliu

Begzad BALIU

Translated from: Abdullah Aliu

FIRST IT WAS YOU THEN CAME OBAMA

This poem dedicated to Kosovar people, President Obama and King of Pop Michael Jackson
First it was you then came Obama
(Michael Jackson, 04th of July 2012)
Happy, happy for happy God*
In this world has sun, eyes and tears
And days marked on earth
It has July 4th, November 28th
Has George Washington, Ismail Qemail has
haven't being and god has given us

the darkest night separates the sky on twain
lights came out and sun made up
your prayers goes down as a koran verses
and lots of hands, lots of eyes towards the sky
and their pupil filled with pain and hope

open hell and let your voice blast
open sky to see the message of our century
for earth, for peace, for guiltiness
My King!
Amen!

Michael
First it was you
then came Obama
Kosova was somewhere in the middle of father and son and holy spirit
Amen!

Our God
praying for rain
(even when the sun was pointed by my eyes)
praying for Earth
(even when I have lost gravitation between me and her!
praying for sky
(even when Serb put a knife on my neighbour’s throat)
praying with you: The crying earth the weeping shores?**
When train filled with last Kosova’s inhabitants departs for nowhere!
Forgive me Michael, but
The heavens are falling down**
Forgive me on your 3rd death anniversary!
Forgive me tonight, the night of july 4th
My King
Amen
Our God
Friday’s morning
praying for you
(and the grass dew)
praying for you
(and the white milk on the belly’s woman)
praying for you
(and the muddy’s salt of sea in infinity)
praying for you
(and bloody lips of children)
praying for you
(inflamed eyes of peace warriors)
praying for you
(and the bird knocks on the dried tree of park)
praying for you
(and the injured bird on the dried tree)
praying for you
(and the withered flower on the window)
praying for you
(and the dried tree on the Eiden’s Garden)
My King
Amen

Michael,
Don’t know if we were your dream
Or her consequence
Don’t know
Bend over the land of kosova and pray
Happy, happy for happy God*
lights came out and sun made up*!
First it was you then came Obama
Kosova was somewhere in the middle of father and son and holy spirit
haven't being and god has given us*!
Amen

Our God
(I think about the generations
and they say they want to make it
a better place for our children and our children's children
so that they know it's a better world for them
and I think they can make it a better place)**

I’m calling witness my feather and ink
And the thing that is written with feather
Calling witness the unsafe darkness of dusk
And night
And everything she heals;
Calling witness the moon when it heaves
And the dawn when is whiten;
Calling witness the day of calamity
And the soul who reprove himself;
Calling witness the time
Beginning and the end of everything
That every man is always in come down***

Michael
First it was you,
then came Obama
Kosova was somewhere in the middle of father and son and holy spirit
Amen!

Prishtine, 4th of July 2012
*Verses from Albanian’s epos
** Verses from Michael Jackson’s song
***Verses from Holly Koran, translated from Esat Mekuli and Tajar Hatipi
****for choosing Verses of Michael Jackson’s song I had my daughter support Bardha.