10 years without Sokol Olldashin/ The photojournalist remembers him with a poem

2023-11-20 16:29:00, Aktualitet CNA

Sokol Olldashi

Photojournalist Felix Bilani remembered today the late Sokol Olldash, his dear friend, with a poem of his entitled "Me and Me".

Today on his 10th anniversary, the photojournalist remembers with nostalgia Olldash, his dear, wise, rebellious and true friend.

Bilani says that in Olldash's absence, he reads the poems he left behind and tsmalt.

" 10 years without Koli

Shall we drink a hell of a pee ....?

Today I woke up with this voice ... today 10 years without Kol, rebel, calm, wise, true in what you were my friend. Go away quickly and leave us in this mess of ours...friends that you kept close have become basins, precisely the basins of the level when we used to talk at Magelani, a bar near the editorial office, or at the waterfall, but you see them from above and surely laugh saying that the provincial never becomes a noble citizen....

Today we drink a beer together, you have left behind us poems and words that I remember when I read or listen to them.

I'm raising my last glass for today...for your memory, Sokol Olldashi...reading what you saw and felt...a poem from my friend.

ME AND ME

A shadow hangs over me

with bloody nails

stuck in empty veins.

I hang on to a shadow

with my poisonous teeth

I roll my eyes.

We bite each other

me and the shadow

the shadow and I are killed.

We die, I and I", writes Bilani.

Sokol Olldashi died in a serious car accident in Krrabë on November 20, 2013.

He was one of the personalities who entered politics through the door of journalism and immediately stood out as one of the wisest, most energetic politicians, with a brilliant joke for every occasion.

After leaving his mark in journalism, he served as a deputy of the Albanian Parliament for 3 terms, as Minister of Order and then as Minister of Public Works, Transport and Telecommunications.

The student of December '90 made an indelible contribution to the Democratic Party, where he also ran for president in 2013 against Lulzim Basha.

Sokol Olldashi died 10 years ago and with him died the dream of a strong opposition./ CNA