I — am. You — will be. An abyss between us.
I drink. You're thirsty. We cannot agree.
Ten years, oh no, a hundred thousand years
Do stand between us. God does not build bridges.
Be! - this is my demand. Let me walk past you
Without violating growth with my breath.
I — am. You — will be. In ten springs from now
You will say "is!" — and I will say "sometime"...
Я — есмь. Ты — будешь. Между нами — бездна.
Я пью. Ты жаждешь. Сговориться — тщетно.
Нас десять лет, нас сто тысячелетий
Разъединяют. — Бог мостов не строит.
Будь! — это заповедь моя. Дай — мимо
Пройти, дыханьем не нарушив роста.
Я — есмь. Ты будешь. Через десять вёсен
Ты скажешь: — есмь! — а я скажу: — когда-то…
«While Achmatova's tears and songs / Were raining over Tsarskoe Selo, / I, unwinding the enchantress' ball of thread, / Dragged myself through the wilderness / Where impossibility was dying, / A tired actor / Striding forward. / Meanwhile the curly head / Of the subterranean bull wa...»
«If I turn humankind into a clock / And show how the century hand moves / Wouldn't war disappear from our age / Like an obsolete letter from the alphabet? / Our kind got itself piles / From the springy chairs of war, / But I tell you what I learned about the future / Through my preterh...»
«The female clouds drifted weeping / Above the highest valleys’ valleys / The female clouds were slinging hay / Above the saddest valleys’ valleys / The female clouds were dripping hay / Above the saddest valleys’ valleys / The female clouds drifting wailed / Above the highest val...»
«A monster inhabits mountain’s high / And has a terrifying bottom. / It’s grabbed a girl carrying a pot / And flashes her a comely smile. / And she is ready to drop just like / a fruit in his paws like hairy branches. / The monster is as a monster looks. / Self-satisfied it scratche...»