***"До твоего прихода 1. Когда уезжал Позабылись дожди,...

*** "Before you come
1. When was leaving

The rains are forgotten
rest the wind?
Is it time
And the station will turn around -
hands to the sides, -
till!
On the platform, chilled
not a soul?
Write?
You and I alone on the planet are empty.
Wait a minute?

I was waiting for you
called
repeated
lost!
And hung over us
like a star
trouble.
So the years go by
so trembling at the temple
century?

Does the composition rattle for you and me?
Leave it!
These are your lips
eyelash movement, -
don't dream!
At the slanting dawn
in a frantic night
be silent.
Open your hands
to cross?
Sorry!
And calmly, -
for the first time in many days -
fall asleep.

And you go upstairs.
Kostrom.
Impulse.
Here
suffocated.
The pupils startled.
You move your hand along the railing
as if you are pulling the net
from the river.
Your river is now upstairs.
And what about the networks? ..
No time?
Then?
Knocking
enameled bowl
in a neighbor bag
o can?
A neighbor says something sadly.
Is everyone complaining?
Money?
Sons?
And you even answer her something
although you
Can't I hear yet? "

(c) Robert Rozhdestvensky