Навіщо. What For

To Anastasiia Starozhitska

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Wants to have no doubt

Whether her love will manage

To save those whose names she cries out.

This does look like a prayer,

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Eagerly waits for the daybreak

Every night where the battle rages.

Tea? No, better to someone else.

A gas mask? I do have a scarf…

It seems she is whispering verses

While the fire scorches the ground.

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Remembers everyone from the barricade:

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The-Guy-Who-Composes-Lays.

Shots, downpour of metal, blasts,

Adrenalin in the combat drive…

Maybe everyone will survive

Because she is on guard?

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Doesn’t have a definite answer.

She just loves, she loves sternly

Everyone … like there’s no more chance.

4 February 2014