The proverb sounds ornately wise: Don’t be excited by last year sky, Do not return to former paradise, Stop fool around - rush, new places try! There is the place the nature tries us dummy! There is the place a rumor cannot reach. And there everyone ignores tsunami - The storms are in the soul and head of each! The quietness although missing there, You will return - your friends believe in chance, To act against the proverb you will dare - And you’ll be back where you have met them once! Here is the place the nature tries us dummy! Here is the place a rumor cannot reach And here’s where sometimes born tsunami Which ruin all in soul and head of each! The sea is calm but peace is only local And the locator scans for dangers coming With the alarm on-duty round clock In case "Attention: There Is Tsunami!" I raise a toast for the friends around me! Tsunami is an apathetic wave. There are disasters much more awful than tsunami And there are joys of rather greater scale.
© Vitaly Khazansky. Translation, 2007