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I am polite with modern life...

Сообщение Akmay » 23 окт 2009, 17:42

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I am polite with modern life, but still
There is a barrier between us,
All that she mocks with laughter, sound and shrill,
Remains my only joy in stillness.

Heroic deeds and glory, victory -
The words that have been lost forever
Are thundering upon my bleakened days,
Like Voice of Heaven in the desert.

And needlessly, without a by-your-leave,
The calmness came, bent to the ground, yet
To be an arrow of Achilles
I swore in trivial surroundings.

Yet I'm no tragic hero - way too rough,
Ironic, jaded, dryly chiding,
An iron idol that's consumed with wrath
Amongst the statuettes of china.

The idol still recalls the curly heads
Bent to his pedestal in sorrow,
The solemn offerings of priests, once said,
And windstorms in the ancient forests.

And now he sees, with bitter scorn, the trite,
Unmoving swing sets of the Hades
Where a china shepherd plays his pipe
To an absurdly-bosomed lady.

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