6. Captain Voronin (BG)
When the squad rode into town,
There was a time of human kindness.
The population went on vacation,
On the square were languishing flowers.
All was unnaturally peaceful,
Like in a movie, when a trap waits.
The clock on the tower long ago tolled noon
Of some past day.
Captain Voronin was chewing a blade of grass
And he thoughtfully was looking around.
He knew that everyone see reflection in the glass,
And everyone hear unnatural knock.
People believed him how to a father,
They knew who all has to decide.
He was known as the one who was never in a hurry,
When nowhere else to hurry.
I remember who volunteered to go first, I'll tell you their names:
Sailor Yegor Trubnikov and Injun Edge of Log.
The third was with no name, but with experience in a half thousand years;
And squinting like Clint Eastwood, captain Voronin watched to them into trace.
Had to wait not long, not longer than the winter to wait for spring,
Bad news are jumping as fleas, and good news and so are clear.
And when cloud of dust appeared – there, where houses were stepping aside,
Grandfather Basil said, after becoming stunned to end,
"Finally we've gone crazy."
Who arrived sprang off his horse, staggered and fell back
Him they led to the captain, and suddenly it became visible that Voronin was glad
And who arrived said, "About that, what I saw, I could talk for a whole year,
The gist is in that nobody but us knew where here is the exit,
And even we didn't know where the entrance is."
On each who dances the dances of mermaid, there is the one who goes on water.
Every man – he is tree, he is from here and nowhere more
And if the tree grows, then it grows upward, and no one is free to change it.
Probably only birds in the sky and fishes in the sea know who is right.
But we know that about the main thing they don't write in newspapers,
But of those who has got there, still no one came back backward
So that there are no reasons to cry, there is no cause for sad thoughts
Now only the heart can save us, because the mind already not saved us.
And the heart needs the sky and roots, it can't live in a void
As one boy said, by accident being during this,
"From now all of we will be not those."
When the squad rode into town,
There was a time of human kindness.
The population went on vacation,
On the square were languishing flowers.
All was unnaturally peaceful,
Like in a movie, when a trap waits.
The clock on the tower long ago tolled noon
Of some past day.
Captain Voronin was chewing a blade of grass
And he thoughtfully was looking around.
He knew that everyone see reflection in the glass,
And everyone hear unnatural knock.
People believed him how to a father,
They knew who all has to decide.
He was known as the one who was never in a hurry,
When nowhere else to hurry.
I remember who volunteered to go first, I'll tell you their names:
Sailor Yegor Trubnikov and Injun Edge of Log.
The third was with no name, but with experience in a half thousand years;
And squinting like Clint Eastwood, captain Voronin watched to them into trace.
Had to wait not long, not longer than the winter to wait for spring,
Bad news are jumping as fleas, and good news and so are clear.
And when cloud of dust appeared – there, where houses were stepping aside,
Grandfather Basil said, after becoming stunned to end,
"Finally we've gone crazy."
Who arrived sprang off his horse, staggered and fell back
Him they led to the captain, and suddenly it became visible that Voronin was glad
And who arrived said, "About that, what I saw, I could talk for a whole year,
The gist is in that nobody but us knew where here is the exit,
And even we didn't know where the entrance is."
On each who dances the dances of mermaid, there is the one who goes on water.
Every man – he is tree, he is from here and nowhere more
And if the tree grows, then it grows upward, and no one is free to change it.
Probably only birds in the sky and fishes in the sea know who is right.
But we know that about the main thing they don't write in newspapers,
But of those who has got there, still no one came back backward
So that there are no reasons to cry, there is no cause for sad thoughts
Now only the heart can save us, because the mind already not saved us.
And the heart needs the sky and roots, it can't live in a void
As one boy said, by accident being during this,
"From now all of we will be not those."