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TWO-FACED

You always turn the same side to me,
But I can feel your cold face, too.
You offer a strange choice:
Nothing, or one of your beauties.

You always turn one cheek to me,
Rousing my fear, exciting my curiosity.
Is it dark on the Moon when the moon is full?
Is there not beauty in your other eye, but wrath?

Your eye shines bright when it beholds me.
But it is light with a black circle
Of night around it, which seems to rule your other cheek.

Will you show it to me,
If I reveal my rage enclosed within
Awaking every Christmas?

Want me to show you what nobody else knows?
An expressionless face, a wordless voice,
Emptiness seemingly unfathomable
A touch of freezing embrace like that of a new moon.

Want me to introduce you to a weight that doesn’t split in half
When carried on the shoulders of two?
It only becomes heavier soaked in your will
And you’ll fall under it just like I fall.

Care to know the secret of Gioconda’s face?
May the features not be too sharp
Of he who casts his shadow
Upon her cheeks as she smiles!
Want to break the ranks of the ones called upon?
You haven’t even started to imagine what it is he invites you to.


OBOUSTRANNÁ

Točíš se ke mně pořád stejnou stranou,
já ale tuším i tvou chladnou tvář.
Dáváš mi divně na vybranou:
Buďto nic nebo jedna ze tvých krás.

Nastavuješ mi pořád jednu líci,
budíš můj strach a dráždíš zvědavost.
Je za úplňku temno na Měsíci?
Máš v druhém oku místo krásy zlost?

Tvé oko, když mě vidí, jasně září.
To světlo má však černý prstenec
noci, již tuším vládnout druhé tváři.

Ukážeš mi ji, když odkryju já,
jaký mám uzavřený v sobě běs,
jenž Vánoci vždy ožívá?

Chceš poznat se mnou, co jiný nezná -
- tvář bez mimiky, hlas beze slov,
prázdnotu, která se jeví bezmezná,
dotek, jenž svírá mrazivě jak nov?

Chceš poznat se mnou tíhu, jíž nepůlí,
naloží-li si ji na ramena dva?
Ona jen ztěžkne nasáklá tvou vůlí,
ty pod ní padneš, jako padám já.

Chceš poznat taje tváře Giocondiny?
Kéž nejsou příliš ostře řezané
rysy toho, jenž vrhá svoje stíny

na její líce, když se usmívá!
Nechceš víc patřit mezi nazvané?
K čemu tě zve, se ti ani nesnívá.

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from Departing the Earth, released July 27, 2018

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Recordings On the Road Czech Republic

Collective publishing project of a few kindred musicians, flowing outside (on periphery or in underground) the Czech music happening and mostly devoted themselves to alternative rock or avantgarde music. Stylistically diverse is united by a similar attitude to music perceived not as a medium, but as the way, autonomous and eminently participating on our lives, on our road. ... more

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