EVERYTHING
black death’s wing’s overhead.
Everything’s eaten by hunger, unsated,
so why does a light shine ahead?
By day, a mysterious wood,
near the town,
breathes out cherry, a cherry
perfume.By night, on July’s sky, deep, and transparent,
new constellations are thrown.
something no-one, no-one, has known,
though we’ve longed for it since we were children.
THUNDER
There will be thunder then. Remember me.
Say ‘ She asked for storms.’ The entire
world will turn the colour of crimson stone,
and your heart, as then, will turn to fire.
That day, in Moscow, a true prophecy,
when for the last time I say goodbye,
soaring to the heavens that I longed to see,
leaving my shadow here in the sky.
By: Anna Akhmatova
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