<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569824" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Son Of Vera</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm - the son of Vera...<br>I did not write you the letters for long, <br>Vera Pavlovna.<br>Winds have carried me away, <br>Winds were singing me a song<br>Once - impudently, <br>The other time - terribly, <br>At last - plaintively.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm - the son of Vera.<br>Oh, how did you help me, mother! <br>Mama Vera...<br>You embraced me on the empty stations, mama Vera.<br>I'm - the son of Vera.<br>You were waiting for the useless son to be back, mama Vera...<br>And you asked me to write <br>in my letters the only truth, mama Vera...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm - the son of Vera! <br>The Belief not into god, not in angels, not in the next world! <br>I'm - the son of belief in sun, <br>Which is shining through the tatters of clouds! <br>I'm - the son of belief in the labour of a man, <br>In the flowers on the burnt earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm - the son of belief! <br>The belief in the silence under the torture! <br>And in the song before the execution! <br>I'm - the son of belief in the terrestial love, <br>dazzling as a miracle.<br>I'm - the son of belief in the Morrow<br>such as I wish it to be! <br>And in the people, who are wide as a road! <br>Sincere, and worthy...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm - the son of belief, I despise ninnies! <br>I hate ones, whining and groaning! ..<br>I write to you only the truth, mama Vera.<br>Only the truth...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only here is much a business! <br>Forgive me, <br>I'll not be back soon...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Rozhdestvensky">Robert Rozhdestvensky</a>, translated by Lyudmila Purgina<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569824" data-title="The Son Of Vera de Robert Rozhdestvensky" data-description="I'm - the son of Vera... I did not write you the letters for long, Vera Pavlovna. Winds have carried me away, Winds were singing me a song Once - impudently, The other time - terribly, At last - plaintively. I'm - the son of Vera. Oh, how did..."></div> </div> </div>

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