I am living my dream life now. And the best part? It's only beginning.
Lavandaire
Lavandaire
November 2022
the life of my dreams
Amira Samatova
2022
2022
No people are uninteresting.
Their destinies are like histories of planets.
Nothing in them is not particular,
and no planet is like another.
“No people are…”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translated by Albert C. Todd
Their destinies are like histories of planets.
Nothing in them is not particular,
and no planet is like another.
“No people are…”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translated by Albert C. Todd
Aqburabay Trail, July, 2022
And if someone lives in obscurity,
befriending that obscurity,
he is interesting to people
by his very obscurity.
befriending that obscurity,
he is interesting to people
by his very obscurity.
Everyone has his own secret, private world.
In that world is a finest moment.
In that world is a tragic hour,
but it is all unknown to us.
In that world is a finest moment.
In that world is a tragic hour,
but it is all unknown to us.
And if someone dies
there dies with him his first snow,
and first kiss, and first fight.
He takes it all with him.
there dies with him his first snow,
and first kiss, and first fight.
He takes it all with him.
Yes, books and bridges remain,
and painted canvas and machinery,
yes, much is sentenced to remain,
but something really departs all the same!
and painted canvas and machinery,
yes, much is sentenced to remain,
but something really departs all the same!
Such is the law of the pitiless game.
It’s not people who die, but worlds.
We remember people, sinful and earthly.
But what did we know, in essence, about them?
What do we know of brothers, of friends?
What do we know of our one and only?
And about our own fathers,
knowing everything, we know nothing.
They perish. They cannot be brought back.
Their secret worlds are not regenerated.
And every time I want again
to cry out against the unretrievableness.
“No people are…”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translated by Albert C. Todd
Photocredits:Amira Samatova, Marat#ON Running Club
