From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   Teasing and tempting and playing   
   We loved like children, us both   
   But somebody, hiding a smile,   
   Set up the ungentle nets -   
   And here we are at the harbor,   
   Not seeing the wished-for abodes,   
   But knowing that I will be yours   
   In the heart, without words, until death.   
      
   You told me of all things - so early!   
   I guessed them so late! In our hearts   
   A wound is eternal, a silent   
   Question exists in our eyes,   
   The desert on earth is so endless,   
   The heaven, so high, has no stars,   
   Revealed is the tender secret,   
   And frost rules for centuries.   
      
   I will talk to shades! O my dear,   
   To forget you I do not have might,   
   Your visage can't move under shadow   
   Of eyelids gone over my eyes...   
   It's darkening... Shutters have closed,   
   On all things descending is night...   
   I love you, one ghostly-eternal,   
   And only you - and always!   
      
   By Marina Tsvetayeva   
   Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)