Tеmporal*
All is already formed.
World exists a long long time.
How perfect is the nature,
It wouldn’t otherwise survive.
It is impossible for a unique
human life
To perceive what had been tilled
by twelve empires
in three millennia.
To sense it by one mind,
by nerve endings of ones eyes and ears,
and nose, and tongue and lips,
hands and feet, and phallus, and clitoris,
To test it with the vocal chords,
or by stack, or kolinsky paintbrush,
or pen stylus, or instrumental keyboard,
typewriters and computers.
Barely there is some time,
to pack in vanity and toil
on flat immortal surfaces
the most important and superior
what mortal people have:
Notes and formulas, verses and concepts,
transformed virtual images.
But there is Me. Me, just one and only!
And You appear. Just one and only You.
Me and You. You and Me.
And there is He. Just one and only.
You’re better than I am.
He’s worse than You.
But I’m higher Him.
No, no, he’s better,
Nay, nay - You better,
No, I’m – the top!
Yes - Me, yes - You, yes - Him!
Nay, nay, no! Yes, yes, aye!
Yes You, yes Me with You.
I - I – I – I- I -I!
Youuuuuuuuuuuu!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Clang, rumble,
quiet squeaking,
squelching,
of germination from mother’s loins,
and growth, and growing
into the rhizome of human being
on planet X.
All that for
proudly saying
me, me,me,
gently: you, you, you and
heatedly: him, him, him.
* Temporal centralism - unquestioned and mostly unperceived perception by people of their century, epoch and time in which they are living. (Author’s note).
2004
English translation by A. Besedin