Памяти Брата

In Memory Of My Brother

The years are knocking on my window

Running down the glass, like tears

They are carrying me away

Through the sun, joy, rain and mist

And the milestones of my life

Fly by in a misty chain

Along the bumpy and steep

Country road of my destiny

And people stand along the road

Loved ones, and others

Waving to me looking into nowhere

And you stand in a foggy dream

My gone nowhere brother

And you smile at me

Like you did many long years ago

And I wave to you

And I call you with me

Here, where there are sounds and light

Where you are so dear to us

Where every day, many times

We imagine you

Where your mom and dad

Live in quiet grief

Come, Mishulya, look around

What wonderful sons you’ve got

How in a whirlwind of a waltz

Circling until dawn your princess-daughter

And how here in your memory

Happen so many good deeds

Come, do not accept your departure

Your life was incomplete when you flew away

But you are silent. Just a cheerful

Smile blooms on your face

We cannot turn the years back

We cannot predict our fate

And in the whirl of souls, the mingle of bodies

I suddenly understand:

You did not leave, did not fly away

You simply dissolved into us.