Another Day Poetry: Nowhere City

Nowhere City

I cannot live in this city any more, no.

Nothing is holding, nothing is pulling back at all,

Nothing is wishing me to stay a day,

But I keep looking for what to say.

The poisoned city with no cure,

Where everyone’s too adult, too mature,

The city with a hope for light,

But every citizen is blind.

They’re barging with their illnesses and pains,

And they don’t care if they don’t make a sense.

Heroic city with an ice-cold heart,

That’s falling into pieces with no chance to start,

A savage creature, last one of its type,

It’s giving up, it’s withering without fight.

And hateful empathy is growing very fast,

Or it’s just an offended child from the past?

Demanding an apology from everyone,

Who’s from the city or another town.

The city has corrupted guts and minds,

 And offered nothing in reply,

The city of contrasts, someone said,

But speaking true it means from worst to simply bad.

A word ‘majo’r’ means rich and wealthy,

(They don’t like keeping words too healthy),

But at the same time words mean everything for them,

Pronounce it loud and clearly all they can.

And then ignoring everything that breathes,

Is there still someone who doesn't want to leave?

To run away, escape, be rescued by the Red Cross army,

And let it burn in blue-blue flame, but now, without me.

The people are cursed by ‘indifference spell’,

And I cannot feel the way I felt,

Perhaps I’ll long one day for that,

That city and its people in their silly hats,

Perhaps I will forget it all,

The long hard way from hole to hole.

The Friday Poetry at Thursday. "To hobo"

Two days ago, in front of my window has died a homeless person. I have watched him for a long time. Slept on the ground, on cardboard. Even at the end of the summer, when it began to get cold I thought how he would go on like this, and then he has died. And here's something I wrote. (Originally I wrote it in Russian, so the English version may seem painfully awkward, but I firmly believe that this is forgivable in poetry.

Russian version below )

I just want you to live well

And were a good person, no woe

That thou shouldest be stronger and smarter than was

And didn’t have to take cover with snow,

How many losses and how many roads

So helplessly you're wandering heaved 

But that someone would write a few lines to you

You would never have believed,

Rotted chair and a pair of plastic bags

All the wealth that you've managed to find

Instead of a soft bed and balloons

To solemnly, proudly say goodbye.

Aloof, offended, you slept and smoked

On your aching bones

But maybe, sometime, you have lived and loved

Among seemed, as you thought of ‘yours’,

Turned out, broke down perhaps you could not

Did not find the right words and accents

To hell are you damned, God said to you

And lost in the crucial moments,

I do not want to pity, this feeling is bad

Meaningless and speechless

I would like at least now

You have finally found, a plenty of intimate rest.

" Бомжу "

Хочется просто чтоб ты жил хорошо
И был хорошим человеком
Чтобы ты был сильнее и умнее был
И не спал укрываясь снегом ,
Сколько потерь и сколько дорог
Так беспомощно ты бродил
Но что кто - то напишет пару строчек тебе
Ты бы никогда не поверил ,
Прогнившее кресло и пару кульков
Все богатства что смог ты найти
Вместо мягкой постели и воздушных шаров
Чтоб торжественно , гордо уйти ,
Отчужденный , обиженный , спал и курил
На костях ты своих больных
Но быть может , когда - то ты жил и любил
Среди как бы , казалось своих ,
Обернулось , сломалось , а возможно не смог
Не нашел нужных слов и акцентов
Пропади же ты пропадом , сказал тебе бог
И пропал в переломных моментах ,
Жалеть не хочу это чувство плохое
Бессмысленное и немое
Хочется просто чтоб хотя бы сейчас
Ты обрел в достатке покоя .