Confession of a Ghost. Epilogue

“CONFESSION of a GHOST”
a novel by Alexandra Kryuchkova
in the “PLAYING ANOTHER REALITY” series

EPILOGUE

Monday, Moscow,
maternity hospital No.17


I opened my eyes and screamed from the pain of what I had already known but what I would forget before I could learn to speak, and… would it be worth remembering?


Having fixed the date of birth to the tombstone,
The wrong stars will be lit up today
Above the old maternity hospital…
No wings needed to fall to the ground…
I would like never to think of death being alive,
Happiness is in Sodom…

The lips of Judas crucified Christ…
The conscience of the winged ones is crystal clear,
The Sun is about to set…
Someone laughs, your cross is funny!
The memory will be erased, offended by the quest,
Having called out Hecate…

Souls know that fate is not honey,
In every stretch where you are like a fish on ice,
There is just the God’s will…
If not for the wings, which had time to decay,
I would dare to fly back
Right today…

June 22, 2019

P.S. When you are on Athos in Ouranoupoli, find Dimitra and ask to show you the place on the wall in her shop where the icon of St. Peter with the keys has been materialized.