Look out!
All of us are moving
to the cherished purpose
at the cost of lost and dead
instead of us.
Due to statistics n percent
should crash on roads,
sink, burn down,
be shot down, blown up,
die from cancer,
from mass of other diseases.
« Hello, hello! «-
we say when meeting each other.
Lord forbid to come closer
to the cherished purpose,
unique for all,
despite of all circumstances
and accidents.
And she’s waiting for all of us,
and she’ll get everyone of us,
and she’ll embody all of us
noiselessly, mutely, so silently,
as falls the spiky icicle
or a brick from a multi-storey house,
smashing into smithereens someone’s skull.
Perhaps, someday we shall say,
when meeting each other:
«Look out, bro, it’s killing!»
2003
English translation by A.G. Besedin