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“Under sun the eyes are burning” by Marina Tsvetaeva 🇷🇺 (8 Oct 1892 – 31 Aug 1941)
Translated from the Russian by Ilya Shambat
Under sun the eyes are burning,
Day’s not equal day.
I tell you for that occasion
If I would betray:
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Whose lips I had not been kissing
In the hour of love,
To whom I upon black midnight
Did not dreadfully vow—
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To live, like a flower blooms, like
Mother tells a child,
Never with an eye to go
To any side …
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See that cross made of cypress?
It’s familiar to you.
All will wake—you only whistle
Underneath my window.