Head of the parliamentary group of the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) Petrit Vasili continues to make opposition with poetry, choosing lines that he thinks suit to the country’s situation. Having chosen Jorgo Bllaci yesterday, Vasili chose Migjeni for today, explaining the reason why:

“This is our Albania, under the weight of state indifference and walking blindly and directionless to the edge. ‘Until when like this…?” the great Migjen asked”, Vasili writes, following with the poetry “Under the flags of melancholy”, written by the Albanian poet of the first half of the 20^th century.

Under the flags of melancholy

In our country

Everywhere are waiving

Flags of a sad melancholy…

… and no one can say

That here lives

A people that builds

Something new.

Here and there in the shadows

Of the flags

One can see

A struggle, an effort

Bigger than death

To give birth to something great,

To take a jinn to the light

But (oh, the irony)

From all that effort

Is born only a mouse.

And so this comedy

Brings the sun of fun,

Till out of sorrow

We explode.

In the doorstep of any building

Where there’s sign of life

is waiving a flag

of a sad melancholy.