About our meeting - nothing to discuss! It came with a disaster expectation, But you and I began to live at once, Were not afraid of harmful implications. I clothed you, shoed you, dragged you out of mud, I narrowed down your circle of connections, But you were followed by a tail behind, The lengthy tail of your short-lived relations. I then get used to beating up your friends, I had unpleasant feelings in their presence, Although it’s likely that among those gents There even could be rather decent fellows. What you have asked for, I did right away, I hoped to make each hour a night of wedding. Because of you, I’d dived towards the train, But wasn’t quite successful in my heading. And if you’d only waited for me true, The year they sent me far for reposition, I would have stolen the whole sky for you, As well as Kremlin stars to the addition. And I will cross my heart and hope to die - Don’t lie, don’t drink, and I’ll forgive betrayal, I’ll gift you the Bolshói to please your eye And add the Luzhniki? Small Sports Arena. But now I’m scared of seeing you again, I’m scared of you, afraid of nights between us, The way the population of Japan Is scared of a repeat of Hiroshima.
© Kirill Tolmachev. Translation, 2022