13 April 2026

Chains Bridge crossing the Danube River in Budapest (Hungary)

...And the rain began to drizzle,
but as if it didn't matter, it stopped.
And yet, like someone watching
the long rain from a cave - I looked at the border:
it fell like a monotonous, eternal rain,
colorless, what was colorful, the past.

The Danube just flowed. And like a small child
on the lap of a fertile, absent-minded mother
, the foams played beautifully
and laughed at me.
They trembled in the tide of time like
rolling cemeteries with tombstones.
...

From the poem By the Danube,
Attila Jozsef