Doctor By Verapolozkova Translation
Doctor, what a delight you are here with your grace
Doctor, I've been so worried that you disappeared.
Doctor, I have this feeling somebody appeared
At the lacrimal gland, is climbling down my face.
Doctor, how are your children and how have you been?
Doctor, do you sleep well these days? What have you seen?
This armchair's - God's a witness - result of a craft,
Is exacly the same as in most Boeing aircrafts.
People are visiting you for their life's preview
As if you're Buddha. Is your paper in Hebrew?
Doctor, I'm begging talk to me for a minute.
Doctor, I'm asking just be with me when I'm mute.
***
What is bothering me? Here you go -
I wish that God I dearly care for
Would make me the same so that.. hmm. So
I woulnd't feel anything anymore.
A sharp elbow's - but why? -
Pointing at my soft chest,
Missing a beat at crest.
So I don't shout or cry
And I don't wither
And I don't blether
But to sadly groan
And fall in a moan.
Lie down so that your bare shoulder blades
Are stamped down hard to the lake's bottom
Tuck yourself in different clay shades
That is the moment you stop caring,
Hardening until you're forgotten.
***
Why don't you answer me? Your pair
Of eyes with your head are nodding.
Some tea for me? Anti-despair?
I'm applauding.
Let's go to my place, Doctor? Mate?
Maybe you'd kindly change my rate.
Perhaps you'll forbid me to rhyme
My emotions. Is that a crime?
Would you caress me? Or scold me?
Please adopt me altogether.
Doctor, what do you think? Rather
Different? Tell me!
In a breakdown I shove your door,
All I hear - "Head down, on the floor!"
What are you scribbling? I can't see.
No. You can't be discharging me?
Copyright © Agatha Jetaime | Year Posted 2015
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