Calugarul din vechiul schit/ The monk from the old convent

The monk from the old convent

Sheltered me for a day

And spoke to me about the world

And love.

The next day I asked him

What mad longing led him

To live his life within the monastery

He answered me- "Two blue eyes"

The monk from the old convent

Went mad with that longing

And his good friends

Took him to the madhouse

I found him again and asked

"Why are you here with the mad"

I knew you within the monastery

He answered- "Two blue eyes"

The monk from the old convent

Died with the same longing

And at his grave, with the monks

Cried bitterly his Two blue eyes.