It would be awful

It would be awful
Waking up the same every morning.

But if would be even worse
Seeing the end of the day
With morning eyes.

[E tmerrshme do të ish, from the volume Sidomos nesër, Tirana: Naim Frashëri 1989, p. 13, translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie, and first published in English in An elusive eagle soars, anthology of modern Albanian poetry, London: Forest Books 1993, p. 205]