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Category: Anna Akhmatova

Beyond the lake the waning moon has slowed,And stands there like a window open wideInto a hushed and brightly lit abodeWhere something dreadful has occurred inside.

Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me

mirror, mirrors, reflection, tomorrow

And you know, I agree to everything:I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

All’s taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates,Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hourThe blood grows colder in my veins.

lost, poetry-quotes, sadness

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,Happiness is not for me.

depressed, sad, sadness, sorrow

I marvel at everything as if it were new.

beauty, marveling, new

No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to torment, Even he, who caressed and forgot.

loss, love, poetry

Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you.

Without love, I’m more at ease, I’m sure. The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping, And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

friendship, lonliness

I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.

living, poetry, soul

I’m happy. But some beauty is nonesuch – The gently sloping path across the wood, The wretched bridge that’s just a little skewed And that, for which, I won’t be waiting much.