Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Songs of the final meeting - Anna Akhmatova



My breast grew helplessly cold,
But my steps were light.
I pulled the glove from my left hand
Mistakenly onto my right.

It seemed there were so many steps,
But I knew there were only three!
Amidst the maples an autumn whisper
Pleaded: “Die with me!”

I’m led astray by evil
Fate, so black and so untrue.
I answered: “I too dear one!”
“I too, will die with you…”

This is a song of the final meeting.
I glanced at the house’s dark frame.
Only bedroom candles burning
With an indifferent yellow flame