Well may I curse in years to come
The features of your face.
My love is like a cataclysm,
Transcending time and space.
There’s not a friend or comrade dear
Who in the light of day
Could come into this flaming fire
And pull me clear away.
Despairing of escaping you
And raving like a fool,
As harnessed to an earthquake,
I live under your rule.
But when I come to free myself
From this hallucination,
I shall defend you when I hear
Their words of condemnation.
“Why do you number up her sins?
She’s neither wrong nor right!
She’s not a woman, she’s a force,
A tempest in the night;
And feeling the approaching threat,
I went to meet the storm!
I did not stay, like you, indoors,
Where it was dry and warm.”
(Konstantin Simonov)
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