Голубиное слово [Golubinoye slovo] [English translation]

Painted with branches of lilac

Written with leaves on skin

With my very last breath

I say: Lord, beloved, thank you

That I had the honor of seeing

How you burn out in the flame of sunset

In order to never return

Because you never leave

Just one more will have no place to go

One more by the hand to the garden over the river

Where they go on wings of cherubs

Because nobody gave them a name

And that means, always in silence

And tomorrow there will be what was before

The holy union of earth and sky

If lucky, you'll catch a bullet in your teeth

One beauty alone cuts down without mercy

Because she holds judgment in her heart

Because she keeps the way to the north

Where there is neither time nor explanations

Only snow up to the horizon

It means the sky will still open before one

With eyes shining with happiness

Your works, Lord, are immortal

And your ways are inscrutable

And all lead to one side

Write this word on stone

Paint it with the aurora borealis

Fill it with dove's blood

And forget forever what it means

Doves will take it to the sky

So high they can't be seen any more

And the sky will split into pieces

But no one will find out about this

And we will burn out in the flame of sunset

To remain forever in the garden over the river

Because with our lips

You once said this, once and for all,

The dove's word