Hey, Ostrava / Ahoj Ostravo

 

Hey, Ostrava

Didn’t like you.
Not at all.
But I had to learn
to breathe your smoke,
to live in your noise.

Didn’t like you,
and yeah —
there were years
I might’ve said I hated you.

You pulled me in deep,
and you were dark,
so dark I had to shut my eyes,
turn away,
pretend you weren’t mine.

But somewhere,
under the grime and the rain,
I started to hear you.
Your heartbeat
under the concrete.
Your breath in the rails.

And now—
I find myself coming back.
Watching you shift,
brick by brick,
watching how I shift too.

Guess I like you now.
Yeah… I do.

- - -

Original czech version:

Ahoj Ostravo

neměl jsem Tě rád
ale musel jsem se v tobě naučit dýchat
a žít
neměl jsem Tě rád
a byly roky, kdy bych řekl, že jsem tě i nenáviděl
byl jsem v tobě tak ponořen
a byla jsi tak temná
že jsem musel zavírat oči
a utíkat od tebe
a pak jsem tě začal chápat
a rozumět ti
a tak to je
že se k tobě vracím
a pozoruji, jak se měníš
a jak se měním já
mám tě rád

(English version translated from Czech using Chat GPT)

Ostrava, 9/2025

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