Good man, shift yourself too
from words to deeds persistently,
not always
bad boys, villains and rogues will rule us,
calling distorted minds
and blind revenges
for witnesses and judges
and corrupting everything.
What the other day promised to do -
do it in the morning,
without relaxing and procrastination
and honing art of laziness,
without digging into the details and trifles
unnecessarily
and deceiving yourself foolishly
straying far away again
from the chosen course.
The will is the exact adherence to the plan,
which lead you into success,
all the rest - vanity and traps,
and seductive sirens singing
and kankan dances.
And there is one bitter feature
of this great truth,
villains, maniacs and evil persons
have got this
much better than good people.
Othello was great soul,
Iago - the sheer persistence of treachery.
And Stalin and Timur were titans of the will,
although monsters incomparable.
This truth understood too late
by much more good and smart people
that was in critically important time
busy with intellectual tricks and plays and flirts
all these Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotski
and other good comrades and favorites of Lenin,
while tyrant regrouped stained cards
prepare for final step and triumph
for himself
and great tragedy for nation.