2019.04.16.
It doesn’t matter from where you’re writing now
lyrics Sergei Ivkin - at vk.com/vershitellmusic Alexei Belyaev – at bards.ru
perf. Elena Bushueva - at
translation by Dmytro Zelenskyy -- August 30, 2016
It doesn’t matter from where you’re writing now, dear -
which shore or life stage,
doesn’t matter which language your children will have to learn there –
is it English, Hebrew, or French,
whatever the country you’re in, on which side –
of planet, or river Styx -
doesn’t matter, because all we have - is to say
farewell,
memorizing some pic[ture]s.
And even if it smells and sounds like immigrants’ woes –
like Bruegel, like Brodsky,
That’s how it’s repeating itself, dear, once… –
once you feel yourself as an orphan.
We grow through each other besides any
actual contacts.
We all are connected to something Above,
we are Whole in the Common -
you know this now.