Пламенный посланник [Plamennyy poslannik] [English translation]

The flaming messenger

Cries but burns.

Allow me a visit

To learn what he's talking about.

Why are his eyes

In righteous flames?

Why are they fastened on me?

Flaming messenger

Of heady ideas,

Why is there so much

Truth for people in your words?

Why do your stories

Trouble my sleep and rest,

Flowing into my heart like a flaming river?

Flaming messenger,

Why do your words

Turn my simple heart

Into a lion's heart?

To find a hero in me?

To yield the fire in me?

I'll reveal it to you: I've already been burnt by you.

Flaming messenger,

I used to be like you,

I used to cry with desire

To be the pearl of beauty,

I used to argue to my beloved

That the world hates hustle,

That light does not carry darkness in it.

Flaming messenger,

Take your letter,

Rush like a hot arrow

Back home to your cloud ten,

Tell them I don't see a point

In self-immolation for the people,

In pursuing righteous ideas.

Take back your message

Together with the tarot cards,

Tell them that my people,

Simple in their wishes yet righteous,

Don't want needless troubles

Where everything is pre-determined,

They only want bread and movies.

Flaming messenger,

Take back your letter,

I promised my coutry and my mother

To be a straight arrow,

I promised my beloved

Not to be a role model for the people,

Not to be a flaming heart in the darkness.