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Poems from a Stool · 2024

When a person is gone

When a person is gone: You can launch paper planes into the sky, You can cry for him.. But, my friend, whatever you do, We'll never bring him back.. He hasn't gone anywhere — just take a closer look. What do you mean "died", come on, dear, snap out of it. He whispers in your ear — know this, brothers, I'm always near. We're ploughing the expanses here like a summer meteor shower. Our wings catch a little on the edge. From up there we hear how loudly you all think. So we put on a night show for you, To see the light from your kind eyes, so the tears of loneliness would fall down sooner, so you'd see the bottomless cosmic distances. And your eyes will light up like heavenly bodies, And through them will pour an unearthly power In an endless stream straight into the heart.. When you go to sleep — leave the little door open.
Draft translation, the author is still revising it · written in Russian