Journey

The continuation of ‘’Presage’’.

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English Love Poem – Journey
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• Scene 1.
• Desert. Presage drags me between the dunes.
• PRESAGE.
• Sun bestows a flame to sandy hills
• And with Its passion any wound heals
• And any earthly essence sooner melts
• And turns a clay.
• Takes out his flask, makes a sip and pours the rest on my face.
• ME coming to.
• It is my home
• And we needn’t long to go,
• Just leave this road
• Back and … further I know.
• I long to be a burden of the sun,
• To breathe the flame of its eternal run,
• To scatter the earthly part of mine
• To sirocco of love.
• PRESAGE.
• You honestly adore your family.
• ME.
• Oh, if I just could explain you how
• Exactly unhappy I was you hardly
• Would understand me!..
• PRESAGE.  Tell me it now.
• ME.
• Rejected always, ridiculed and
• Hold in contempt in all my protests,
• In worries and in tenderness and
• Even in humility. It’s hopeless
• To try to recollect or to complain.
• PRESAGE.
• All what we live through is never in vain.
• What is that strange gray spot on the skyline?
• ME.
• To the right of us? It’s … sirocco. My
• Shirt I took off to bandage my head and
• You need do the same. To sink a face in sand
• Completely close it and tightly tie.
• We have to wait it lying face down.
• PRESAGE.
• Here it comes with deafening sound.
• It’s horrible!
• ME.  There is no use to cry.
• I can not hear you.
• PRESAGE.  My face is deep
• In sand and I am suffocating.
• ME.  Keep
• Silence otherwise we’ll both lose breath…
• PRESAGE, ME raised by swirl. Oh, no!

• Scene 2.
• Desert plain with dunes on the right side and palms on the left.
• ME.
• Stand up and see. We are on plain with row
• Of highest palms. I never was thrown
• By the wind so close to it. There is no
• Better place for us to spend a night
• And first of all in gloom we’ll need a light.
• Dry leaves of palms will burn well.
• I share with PRESAGE the rest of water from my little flask.
• PRESAGE.  And dried
• Dates lie here and there for us to
• Supper. For sake of truth, if you don’t mind…
• Do you retain some better times for you?
• ME.
• Of course. We were just bride and bridegroom
• Then and worked in a promotion office.
• Beside the campaign pages piled in room
• We slept. In daytime people gladly took heaps
• Of them to throw them at us.
• PRESAGE.  You are…
• Masochist!
• ME.  This silly word lacks any
• Meaning for me. That was a world of many
• Truest emotions expressed as ”far”
• As they could only reach.
• PRESAGE.
• You never would behave
• In such a way and that is why you have
• So strongly liked it.
• ME.
• You are quite right.
• PRESAGE.
• And people thought it jest to cause a laugh.
• ME.
• We follow in life a plastic stuff.
• The plastic cars drive to pick up us
• And plastic dreams we’ll never trespass
• And plastic songs are filling up the sky
• For they can neither live nor die.
• PRESAGE.
• It’s day already.
• ME.  I have never seen
• A dawn either sunset here.
• PRESAGE.
• Let’s go.
• PRESAGE and ME are walking together.
• ME.  You have no idea
• What exactly I always have been.
• All this began at school. Once in garden
• I saw people smiling every time when
• Dice was thrown. I quickly seized the dice
• And ran away. I take the dice out and show it to PRESAGE. Look, it’s here and since
• That time my talk makes smile of everyone.
• PRESAGE.
• I see a lake and my thirst makes me smile.
• ME.
• Don’t hurry. Your joy is just for a while.
• PRESAGE.
• You mean, it’s illusion and will be gone.

• Scene 3.
• Lake, shore and mountains behind the lake.
• ME.
• Oh, no. It is real. Try it
• Yourself.
• PRESAGE.  My throat burns. Damn it!
• ME.
• It’s salty. Just lie in it, don’t drink!
• PRESAGE.
• It burns even skin. Are you good friend, you think?!
• ME.
• Life-giving water will never harm us,
• But now it’s not a season of rains.
• PRESAGE.
• We’ll die of thirst.
• ME.  A camel spends here
• The whole life.
• PRESAGE. We’ll become the hermits.
• ME.
• Just have a sight: all mountains to east are
• White from salt. Such grandeur is new on earth!
• PRESAGE.
• They shine under sun, gray little cloud
• Is above and sun is shining through it.
• It’s miracle: I feel cool, mild wind
• Together with rain, we talked about.
• ME.
• I lost my dice. I dropped it when jumped in
• Water.
• PRESAGE.  Already twice you magically
• Predict a weather.
• ME.  I didn’t mean
• It. All around us is rather queerly.
• PRESAGE.
• This happened to me once on other lake in north.
• I sat in boat with my old friends
• When storm has come. I cursed and stretched my hands
• To jump out and avoid the boat’s lost.
• In no time the storm has ceased to be
• And from that time my friends avoided me.

• Scene 4.
• Psychiatric department at hospital. Doctor is talking to my wife.
• DOCTOR.
• He is much better now, you may take
• Him home. With care and medicines
• He is to be all right at least in week,
• But never can be healed of such disease.

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