Margarita Aliger

No, I’d loved not such men, for certain!
No, others land my dream and thought…
… They gone away or were forgotten,
And such one fell to my ‘poor’ lot.

He’s not like them of my idea:
Much more complex and non-hard, 
Much more difficult and dear,  
And brotherly discerned by heart.


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, March, 2001