I love rains, I so passionately love rains,
the rains that went mad and calm rains,
maidenly rains and rains like unbridled women,
fresh rains and the boring rains without end.
I love rains, I so passionately love rains,
I like to wallow in their white and tall grass,
I like to tear their threads and stroll showing them between my teeth
to get them speechless, gazing at me, all the men.
I know it is unbecoming to say "I'm the most beautiful woman",
it's ugly and it may not even be true,
but let me when it's raining,
only while it is raining,
let me spell the magic formula "I'm the most beautiful woman".
I am the most beautiful woman because it's raining
and I look great with fringes of rain in my hair,
I am the most beautiful woman as the wind blows
and my dress flails desperately to conceal my knees,
I am the most beautiful woman just because you
are gone far away and I wait for you,
and you know that I wait,
I am the most beautiful woman and I know how to wait,
and yet I still wait.
There's in the air a smell of love alive,
and all the bystanders are sniffing the rain for this smell,
in such rain you can fall in love lightning fast,
bystanders are all in love,
and I wait for you.
You just know -
I love rains,
I so passionately love rains,
the rains that went mad and calm rains,
maidenly rains and rains like unbridled women...
Translator: Vasile Andreica
see more poems written by: Ana Blandiana
