– Sliver Sliver, 9 April 2017 –
Calm yourself… The times are troubled enough already,
Nothing like those former days that shone like diamonds,
This is another age, one that has left nothing of the past…
But calm yourself, calm yourself, Commander!
Calm yourself, for after astonishing successes,
After decades of history, you remained one with the people,
Beneath the deeds of our forebears in these glorious lands,
Calm yourself, though a certain unease will not leave you.
Calm yourself, as befits only those who have become legends,
Epoch-making architects whose deeds forever speak for them,
For even there, deep in thought, you belong once more to the Albanians,
Calm yourself and speak to us, Enver!
Calm yourself… And you feel these difficult times within your body,
Surely, wherever you are, you cannot fail to know
That in these times we await you in every corner and every place,
For we believe that, among us, you will return once more!
Sliver Sliver
Athens, 9 April 2017
(Translated by The Voice of Albania from the Albanian original)
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