Trigorin [English translation]

The whole night I spent reading the letters from Zarechnaya

Her pain seeped in between the lines

I, thief of stories, wrote the fate of a young girl

To Hell with my conscience- life is so short!

The whole night I spent reading letters from the actress

Thinking back to the way she trembled in my arms

Don't write anymore, you fell into my trap

And for my happiness you have forgotten your own

It's the love for truth that made me into a liar

There is no mention of loving you in my poems

I cannot stand you, nor your constant wailing

But I enjoy love-

just saying.

I screamed from my sleep when in the close-by apartement

you gave birth to a lifeless child, accused of lies

you wrote "Boris, Boris, he had the same lips as you

Boris, Boris, you should have stayed with me

Come, please, so we can bury him together

Come, please, I suffer from fevers

Come, please- I'm all alone for so much pain"

Instead of a signature, only three black dots

It's the love for truth that made me into a liar

There is no mention of loving you in my poems

I cannot stand you, nor your constant wailing

But I enjoy love-

just saying.

My body wrapped by the tentacles of Arkadina

My soul, the Seagull, flies above the lake

Or is it the other way around? You know, I tend to be fickle

I became the hostage of my fountain pen

The angels imprinted the love of God onto you

And I'm making my bed in the foyer of Hell

I will not give my life for you, Nina

Why, why haven't you run away from me

It's the love for truth that made me into a liar

There is no mention of loving you in my poems

I cannot stand you, nor your constant wailing

But I enjoy love-

just saying.

You're a short story, what you wanted to be

You are a living rebuke that cannot be soothed

You are an actress, Nina, it's not for you to fly

except maybe above the country without rain

You are the gunshot and the echo that gives the shivers

You are too loyal and I am not at all

Nina, you live, and I only describe

So please accept that

I don't love you anymore