When I abandoned you (now I’m
Without a doubt true)
I was in love with you that time
As deep as I could do.
To see you now I am not glad,
Reluctant am to tweet,
Your curious look, wide-eyed and sad,
I do not want to meet.
In vain you keep on telling tales
Of home in the range -
All those pleasures tip the scales
In favor of too strange!
Believe me, I have seen Life Seas,
A lot of hurt I’ve had…
I have forgotten many glees
As well as tears shed.
Когда с тобой расстался я —
Я не хочу таить,
Что я тогда любил тебя,
Как только мог любить.
Но нашей встрече я не рад.
Упорно я молчу —
И твой глубокий, грустный взгляд
Понять я не хочу.
И всё толкуешь ты со мной
О милой стороне.
Но то блаженство, боже мой,
Теперь так чуждо мне!
Поверь: с тех пор я много жил,
И много перенёс…
И много радостей забыл,
И много глупых слёз.
«So what if I'd gone through it all? / It's been a while. I don't recall. / I can't recall dates any more, / nor the locations of attacks. (I am one atom of that war, / a nameless private. I came back. / I am one shot's mistaken trace, / I'm bloody ice of January. / I am imprisoned ...»
«And all that's needed is to look, that's all it takes: / To look indeed, and be a little more attentive, / And you will stay, becoming instantly a captive / Of these two eyes, their unanticipated depth. / And all that's needed is to read, that's all it takes: / To read indeed, and over eve...»
«Taken cruelly from me, snatched out, / Crying desperately for me nightly, / Childlike shoulders in a plain black gown, — / Best of treasures, unreturned by the Almighty, I implore you by the past, the present — / Do not follow me with deer-like eyes, please, / Sleep in peace, don’...»
«Everybody chooses for himself: / His belief, his woman and his road, / To serve the devil or to serve the prophet. / Everybody chooses for himself. We pick the things that only fit ourselves: / The words of love and prayers which we whisper, / Dueling blades to fight and swords t...»