How many people fell in this abyss
Ilya Shambat <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Nov 2023 22:30:40 -0700 (PDT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjlrqxeytOFA How many people fell in this abyss,=20 I fathom from afar!=20 There will be time, and I will vanish too=20 From earth's exterior. =20 All will be still, that sang and that did struggle,=20 That glistened and rejoiced:=20 The greenness of my eyes, the gold of my hair,=20 And this my tender voice. =20 Life will continue with its soft hot bread,=20 With day's oblivion.=20 All will continue =E2=80=94 under outstretched heavens=20 As if I'd never been! =20 Like children changeable in every mien=20 And angry not for long,=20 Who loved the times when in the fireplace=20 Into ash turned the log, =20 Violin and cavalcade within the forest=20 And in the village, bell...=20 Upon this dear earth =E2=80=94 I will be no longer=20 That was alive and real! =20 To all =E2=80=94 who are the friends and strangers=20 To me that never knew what was enough -=20 I turn to you with this my faith's demand=20 And a request of love. =20 Both day and night, in word and letter both:=20 For truth of yes and no,=20 For that though I am but twenty I am=20 So often in such sorrow, =20 For unavoidably my slights and trespasses=20 Will be forgiven me =E2=80=94=20 For all of my impetuous tenderness=20 And look too proud and free =E2=80=94 =20 For quickness of events as they come rushing,=20 For truth, for play, say I =E2=80=94=20 Please hear me! But do also please love me=20 For this that I will die.=20 By Marina Tsvetayeva Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat