As a matter of fact I liked only you...
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Translation from Russian to English by UndiscoveredKink.
Original author: Dmitry Bykov / Дмитрий Быков
Original title: На самом деле мне нравилась только ты...
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As a matter of fact I liked only you,
my ideal and my criterion.
Traces of you were in all my women,
which reconciled me with them.
While you are there, submitting to your passions,
flying between d'Orsay and Prado, -
I, so to speak, assembled you piece by piece.
Sounds gruesome, but it is true.
One is snub-nosed, another has a birthmark on her back,
a third is able to take everything for granted.
One adores herself, another - me
(together never again encountered).
One, like you, blows a strand off her forehead,
another constantly loses her keys,
why I could never combine all of this together -
is due to God not repeating mistakes.
And even your soul, to which you have
admitted me perhaps three times through every obstacle, -
has remained here, embodied in all living flowers
and all faulty telephones.
You were so afraid that I would miss you here,
while offering myself pittance.
And rainstorms, and prices, and these shahids, and Rospechat?
God bless you, you are with me, my darling.
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