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“To you, my rival, I will come sometime …” by Marina Tsvetaeva 🇷🇺 (8 Oct 1892 – 31 Aug 1941)
Translated from the Russian by Rolf W. F. Gross
To you, my rival, I will come sometime
At night when moon is standing overhead
When frogs are wailing loudly on the pond
And women are from pity going mad.
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And, marveling at beating of the eyelids
And on your jealous eyelashes, it seems,
I’ll tell you that I’m not a human being
But just a vision which you only dream.
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And I will say: “Console me, console,
Someone is beating nails into my heart!”
And I will say to you that wind is fresh
And that the stars over our heads are hot.