Tišina ne gradi mostove/Silence Builds No Bridges

TIŠINA NE GRADI MOSTOVE / SILENCE BUILDS NO BRIDGES

Ponekad šutim ne zato što nemam riječi,

nego zato što te riječi nemaju kamo otići.

Most između nas je srušen,

ne bukom, nego tišinom koja se taložila godinama.

Sometimes I am silent not because I have no words,

but because those words have nowhere to go.

The bridge between us has collapsed,

not by noise, but by the silence that sedimented over years.

Gledam te s druge strane obale.

Ti si tamo, u svom svijetu koji je nekad bio naš.

Ja sam ovdje, na tlu koje sam sama izgradila.

Voda teče između nas, ravnodušna.

I look at you from the other bank.

You are there, in your world that was once ours.

I am here, on the ground I built myself.

The water flows between us, indifferent.

Naučila sam da ljubav ne može preživjeti u vakuumu.

Treba joj zrak, treba joj glas.

Tišina je sigurna, da. Ali tišina je i hladna.

I na kraju, tišina ne gradi mostove. Ona ih ruši.

I learned that love cannot survive in a vacuum.

It needs air, it needs a voice.

Silence is safe, yes. But silence is also cold.

And in the end, silence builds no bridges. It destroys them.

Biography: Sanja (Magma Star) is a bilingual poet and geological engineer based in France. Originally from Croatia, she spent 15 years in Canada hunting diamonds. Today, she mines the crystals of the human heart through poetry. Author of "Tectonics of the Heart".

Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/gray-concrete-brick-wall-with-gray-wooden-stairs-WH6xKHiSaco) 27. 4. 2026.

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