“Ballad of a smoky carriage”
(«Баллада о прокуренном вагоне», Кочетков А.С. (РУС>>ENG)
-How painfully, how strangely, dear
Be close in earth, with branches weaving
How painfully, how strangely, dear
Now bifurcate under the saw.
There’s no for soul elixir,
It would pour down by tears clearly
There’s no for soul elixir,
It would pour down by resin raw.
Till I’m alive, we’ll be together
The soul and blood are undivided
Till I’m alive, we’ll be together
The love and death – twins till the end.
You’ll bear it easy, like the feather
You’ll bear it easy, my sweet-hearted
You’ll bear it easy, like the feather,
Your dear home, the native land.
-If I’ve got nothing just to cover
From cold and night with evil snarling
If I’ve got nothing just to cover
From wind, which hard and strongly blew.
-After the parting, we’ll recover
Just don’t forget myself, my darling
After the parting, we’ll recover
We’ll both return – and me, and you.
-But if I’ll gone without a letter
Like sunny beam in cold December
But if I’ll gone without a letter
Above stardust, in Milky Way
-Then I will pray to make you better
For earthly life that you’d remember
Then I will pray to make you better
For you to know your better way.
While rocking in compartment mope
Became he homeless and humble
While rocking in compartment mope
He partly cried and partly slept.
When train on slippy rocky slope
Became disintegrate and crumble
When train on slippy rocky slope
On broken railways had leapt
Some very strong inhuman tension
In common jam was heavily crippling
Some very strong inhuman tension
Had thrown away all human prayers
And nobody had got protection
With even promised future meeting
And nobody had got protection
Of hand, which calls from far away
With your beloved don’t farewell never
With your beloved don’t farewell never
With your beloved don’t farewell never
They are the ones for love and think.
Each time goodbye as it’s forever
Each time goodbye as it’s forever
Each time goodbye as it’s forever
When you will go just for a wink.
(2021)