Stranger in Love

When the time runs away

And the night begins dark,

I rove in the black bay,

Like the stranger, like the shark.

When the soft wind breathes in face,

I tightly close my eyes -

I feel that I can waste

My world, my moon, my stars.

And I know I step the way

That lasts for hundred years.

I wait day after day…

I'll meet you, that I swear.

But you may not recognize

My black shadow in the night.

And the beauty of your eyes

I can confuse with the light.

When I see the loneliest dawn,

I pray to stay, to be strong.

And I can ask what have been gone.

I'm well, but I'm wrong!

What can we wait from these -

May be it's from above.

I want the war - I don't need piece,

It must have been love.

May be it's only hopeless end.

There's no finish, no more start.

And I can melt like yellow sand

Or rush away like cart.

So I know that all we die

To meet here again

And I'll see your shining eyes,

I'll take to heart the blame.

 

(Сентябрь 1998)