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Glenday, John: Undark (Undark in Hungarian)

Portre of Glenday, John

Undark (English)

And so they come back, those girls who painted
the watch dials luminous and died.

They come back and their hands glow and their lips
and hair and their footprints gleam in the past like alien snow.

It was as if what shone in them once had broken free
and burned through the cotton of their lives.

And I want to know this: how they came to believe
that something so beautiful could ever have turned out right,

but though they open their mouths to answer me,
all I can hear is light.



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Undark (Hungarian)

Így hát visszatérnek a lányok, 
akik tündöklőre festették az óramutatókat, aztán meghaltak.

Visszajönnek, kezük, ajkuk és hajuk világít,
lábnyomuk sugárzik a múltban, mint idegen bolygón a hó.

Mintha elszabadult volna, ami egykor bennük ragyogott,
és átégette életük posztóját.

Tudni akarom, miként hihették,
hogy jól végződhet, ami ennyire csodálatos,

de hiába nyitják szájukat válaszra,
nem hallok mást, csak fényt. 



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