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“Strange dances”
(«Странные танцы», Рябцев Р.Н. (РУС>>ENG)

I will hear in my dreams those unfinished descants,
I will have night without dreams.
So, and you, just like me, with no sleep, singing chants,
And you have not forgiven me.

In a midnight subway, in a round dance of lights,
I see shadows of your deep pain.
Night, I spent in your arms – was a crazy great night,
But the day is alive again.

When we’ll meet once again
The forgotten old song quiet night wind will sing
And forget for a time what is meaning of ‘love’
We’ll together begin…

Dances of two, fanciful dances,
We’ll wait for a day, won’t stop our glances,
At night we’ll begin fanciful dances
Dance under the rain
In the same underground stations.

Questions that you forgot, answers I will recall,
We will live, even we will split.
Light of new morning stars, our last endless dawn,
They will call us, and we’ll begin…

Dances of two, fanciful dances,
We’ll wait for a day, won’t stop our glances,
At night we’ll begin fanciful dances
Dance under the rain
In the same underground stations.

(2021)