Nabucodonosor

Originally published in Panorama in Interlingua (May-June 2014 issue). The below audio pronunciation was generated by www.Parlator.org.

Nabucodonosor,
io me doleva
facer le error
de entrar de nove
in tu regno.
triste pardono!

ora io debe
fugir de tu corte
al medio del nocte
pro non esser
vidite.
que nos nos non vide!

Nebuchadnezzar (literal translation)

Nebuchadnezzar,
I’m sorry
to have made the mistake
of again entering
your kingdom.
sadly excuse me!

now I need
to flee your court
in the middle of the night
so that I’m not
seen.
may we not see each other!

Catherine B. Krause