Today I got up in the morning

Before the dawn

And watched the spring

Dressed in a beautiful gown

Passing to summer its crown.

 

I opened my door wide

To watch the summer like a bride

 Accepts her sister’s presents.

 

The moment of love and peace,

The moment of happiness

I would love to seize.

The moment of sadness

I would love to cease.

 

I walked together with the summer

To the colorful garden,

To watch the nature’s gamma.

 

I felt myself like in a fairy tale,

Had the greatest wish to sail

In the ocean of beauty and dreams

Feeling the warmth of the sunbeams.

 

But all of a sudden

Instead of hearing the birds sing

I’ve heard a long lasting zing,

It went through the strings of my heart

And the color chart had broken apart.

 

The reality has left my dreams,

The monsters have come, it seems.

And now I could only bitterly weep.

It would be better to sleep.

 

Larisa Rzhepishevska (Odessa, Ukraine)

The 1st of June, 2014