This was my first attempt to translate poetry into English. A poem that I had written in January 03, devoted to my departed husband.

Well… It turned out to become not the same poem, but as close to the original as I could make it.

 

I will close my eyes to be able to see you again…

In the realm of dreams distance can’t separate, spacing nothing,

There light of your smile penetrates pseudo-powerful darkness,

And a hurt, that I’d never embrace you with hug, fades away.

 

Only love gives me strength and ability to understand,

To connect and to hear your music of soul — lightest whisper…

Overgrown the trails with weeds, dandelionish bitter…

You are gone… I will never be able to hide in your hands.

 

Blues «Forget-you-me-not!» — singing flowers… They resonate…

And tenacious memory pulls into maze of the past,

It attracts me to fall into hugs of illusions… But must

I reject invitation — for us it is never too late.

 

Июнь, 2012