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Poems from a Stool · 2023

Brother, What Does It Mean to Save?

Brother, what does it mean to save? Just to yank someone out of the jaws So they can keep on growing And not become dessert on the table of power. Brother, and what does it mean to find? Just, without stirring up the silt, Forward, along the chosen path. Per astra e per aspera, but to the core. Brother, and what does it mean to forgive? Hmmm… To just drop it by chance And not keep it anymore — What later could cut you deep. Brother, and what does it mean to love? Just to become brave. Not to pretend, but simply to be. To seek, to save, and at last to forgive.
Draft translation, the author is still revising it · written in Russian