Photos, videos and images. : Existing or to be.Written by Yuri Voronov.Transla...

Photos, videos and images. : Existing or to be. Written by Yuri Voronov.Transla...: Existing or to be . Written by Yuri Voronov. Translated by Viktor Birkus. Among at all that intertwined in our life, Quite often...

Existing or to be.

Written by Yuri Voronov.

Translated by Viktor Birkus.

Among at all that intertwined in our life,

Quite often selfishness leads us.

Existing or to be, that is the question.

Look like someone or somebody to be?

Be brave, or just pretend to brave?

You sacrificed, loved, created, taught,

Or only talk about it in public,

Afraid confess you in the truth?

What striving you: pretending or to be?

How much cost life in luxury and rest,

When try to sculpt her into falseness dress?

Pretend is easy, difficult to be.

Without Me, 1916,

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin.

Translated by Viktor Birkus.

I think one day, I’ll pass away;

And in this selfsame empty room

Will the same chair and table stay,

And image, ancient and stern.

A butterfly, likewise today,

In a fluffy tender, rainbow silk

Will come on a sunny summer day

To fly and trembling on a sunbeam

Fathomless bottom of the sky

Looks in the window day and night;

And the azure sea with calmed light

Tempts into boundless happy flight.