Here’s a flower that wouldn’t bloom - come spring When they picked it, it wouldn’t resist It’s a story of someone who started to sing Didn’t finish but didn’t persist Maybe fate didn’t like him or give him a chance When he shyly attempted his song But the notes that he played wouldn’t make people dance And who knows what could have gone wrong?             It’s funny don’t you agree with me? He’d tell a joke without the punch line How could he know of what the taste would be? His lips had hardly touched the wine He was only attempting his argument He was timid and slow to begin As the sweat on his forehead began to descend And escaped with his soul through his skin He just loaded his gun for the duel, to be He just learnt all the rules in the game It’s as if he had only begun to see And about to view his first frame He wanted all of it, what for? He had to stop, and right before... Before he reached, before he learned, more And gained knowledge of the truth, above The only one he ever yearned for He’d only just begun to love It’s funny don’t you agree with me He tried to rush but he was late Decisions that he’d have to make, would be Forever left behind unmade There’s truth in each letter I speak He had written for her in the snow But the fate of these poems was bleak It would melt with nothing to show But back then it was snowing a lot, a storm He had freedom to write in the snow, he did He was running to tell her before it got worm And the snowflakes would melt on his lid He didn’t get to her in time And couldn’t make his poem rhyme... He wasn’t fast enough on foot He wasn’t fast enough in flight Who laid his path to be no good? He couldn’t do it if he tried It’s funny don’t you agree with me He tried to rush he made some haste Two seconds flat, the missing link, the missing key And the entire thing to waste! It’s funny, isn’t it, I know, I know Hell even I am laughing too It’s just a tree that wouldn’t grow, so Who can we blame, what can we do?
© Evgeny Sakirski. Translation, 2000
© Evgeny Sakirski. Performance, ?