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I love life because of memories.
About the silence in the winter forest when it snows.
About the thaw in February, when there is a lot of sun
and sparrows bathe in puddles of melted snow.
About the summer rain, where my friends and I start a small motor boat,
which my father gifted me
About the beginning of summer vacation,
which will last three months with a bunch of books read,
bathing for blue chills and goosebumps,
playing badminton, football.
About my first kisses,
about the smell of my first girl's hair bathed in lovage.
About my first jump from a ten-meter tower.
About my first flight on a plane.
About the smell of my first child's body.
About her first steps.
I love life because it tastes like wine, fresh homemade bread,
genuine sheep cheese,
sunny fresh tomatoes, pears, cherries, blackberries.
I love life because of cool sand,
from which a wave had just escaped into the sea.
There is hot sand on which you jump and laugh,
as then, in childhood.
There is frosty air that intoxicates and pinches the nose.
There is loose snow in which I bathe
from this simple happiness to live in this world.
I love life because it smells of tea rose, jasmine, thyme, oregano,
ripe berries and Antonivka apples.
I love life because of morning and evening fog.
There are horses in the fields, crickets in the meadows, swallows under the roof.
There is a river Ros and a bridge across it.
There are storks, herons, gulls and hoopoes,
who do not keep silent for hours and let themselves blow for our health.
I love life because there is you in it. Your smell. Your look.
Your touch. Your voice. Your night breath.
Your words and thoughts.
Your body, heart, soul are incomparable.
I like.
12.40. 18.08. 2021
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© Copyright: Valentin Luchenko, 2021