Wake as you want, but wake in me from sleep – In cold, and numb and bottomless a deep. I do not dream to say a single word, But give a sign that you are in this world. Not for a long, but only for a flash. If not in verse – in sighs or cries of flesh. Only your sigh or moan of complaint, Only your chains’ incomprehensive chant. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, March, 2002