Run away with you? Gladly!
By Lyrikline Collaboration Poets
Published 12 February 2021
By Vera Pavlova
Translated by Jena Woodhouse
Run away with you? Gladly!
Share your shelter and journey?
Simpler to straighten a rainbow,
bend the Milky Way into a bow
give children songs to eat,
win the war in the Caucasus…
Stop loving you? If only!
Simpler to build
a house on the waves.