Mastodawn

There are no boring people in this world.
Each fate is like the history of a planet.

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When people die, they do not die alone.
They die along with their first kiss,
first combat
They take away their first day in the snow

-Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “People”
translated by Boris Dralyuk
#everynightapoem #poetry #translation

@chowleen
Thanks a lot!

That's exactly the thought I always have - what cosmos disappears into nothingness (?) when a person dies.

This form of cosmology is also comforting - for us the living, who regularly compare and judge ourselves.

Ps.: to the last stanza of the poem:

by Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1932-2017,by Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1932-2017, translated by Boris Dralyuk translated by Boris Dralyuk

The Guardian

@Mulgrew thank you - I saw I cut off the last stanza in the photo by accident (it's in the ALT)!