Valery Kourinsky

 

Halflove is weak.  But, on the other hand ...

Halflove is weak. But, on the other hand,
it is the mightiest spoiler in the world.
And your main force is diminished when I
halflove you, honey, and halflike you, friend.

Halflove is neutral, as it seems to all,
but that is it that us attacks at night
with base and bitter gas of First World War,
and comes over us with bombs of SWW.

Halflove is reticence itself. But it us causes
the chief despair in this existence, in
our better hope the worst of holes making,
transforming colored entity in gray.

If one halfloves he is to be a traitor
because halfjobless soul deviates
from work of loyalty, from faithfulness to fire,
to flame, which light for vision here produces.

Two halfloves are not able join in a single whole love,
they are condemned to evil separateness
in volatility of irritated life,
that disappears in ugly way that pains

in robbed humanity, in cheated generations,
in kids produced by demihonesty,
in every day that is a little eclipsed
by vile barbarity of feelings incomplete...

Kiev