Love!.. The ocean I have to hide?..

Ольга Муравьёва
Love!.. The ocean I have to hide?
Cannot stop it and cannot fight!..

I knew how to swim and forgot -
So many instructions I got.

I was drowning, I was afraid
Of its depth and of my pain,

Keeping it to myself all the time:
"Oh, thank you, I am just fine!"

So it grew every night with my tears -
Never shared with friends and peers.

And this ocean I have to hide?
Cannot stop it and cannot fight!..

1998-99