Vladimir Holan - Meeting in a Lift

Vladimir Holan - Meeting in a Lift

We stepped into the lift. The two of us, alone

We looked at each other and that was all.

Two lives, a moment, fullness, bliss.

At the fifth floor she got out and I went on up

knowing I would never see her again,

that it was a meeting once and for all,

that if I followed her I would be like a dead man in her tracks

and that if she came back to me

it would only be from the other world.