The First Letter to the Corinthians
— Artur Dron, 24, Ukrainian poet and soldier
Любов довготерпить, любов милосердствує,
не заздрить, любов не величається,
любов боїться тваринним страхом,
але продовжує йти,
любов могла б здатися, залишити все,
але продовжує йти.
А інколи в любові прострелені ноги,
або в ногах у любові осколки,
і ноги її стискають турнікети,
або ніг у любові більше немає.
Тоді любов несуть її друзі.
Любов риє окопи і живе в них,
і гризе у них лід із розрізаної пляшки,
коли хоче пити у мінус двадцять.
Любов виходить на бойові чергування,
піднімається на позиції
з грижами, з температурами, із простатитами, із контузіями,
з астмами і алергіями,
з високою імовірністю
не повернутися,
з думками про когось
найважливішого.
Все зносить, вірить у все,
сподівається всього, все терпить!
Любов розрізняє на слух
виходи градів, прильоти мін і рух танків.
Очі любові болять,
коли довго дивиться в тепловізор.
Прокидається любов
уночі, коли миші в бліндажі заповзають
під її бушлат.
Інколи любов
довго блює у посадці після важкого бою.
А інколи
любов закриває очі друзям своїм.
І загортає їх в спальники
і виносить.
Ніколи любов не перестає!
Хоч пророцтва й існують, та припиняться,
хоч мови існують, замовкнуть,
хоч існує знання, та скасується.
Бо інколи закінчується обстріл,
і любові закривають очі,
і друзі загортають її в спальники,
і виносять.
І тоді вона
переходить живим.
Love is patient. Love is kind.
It is not jealous, is not pompous.
Love is terrified like a beast
but it perseveres.
Love could give up and abandon it all
but it perseveres
Sometimes, love has gunshot wounds to
its legs or bullet fragments lodged in them.
Tourniquets squeeze love’s legs,
or it has no legs anymore.
Then love’s friends carry love.
Love digs trenches and lives in them.
It gnaws ice from the bottle cut in half
when it gets thirsty at negative four.
Love takes up combat duty,
gets into position
with hernias, fevers, prostatitis,
with blast injuries,
asthmas and allergies,
with a high probability
of not making it back,
with thoughts about
the most significant one.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things!
Love can distinguish by ear
the shots of rocket launchers,
the strikes of mortar shells, and
the movement of tanks.
Love’s eyes hurt when it stares into the
thermal imager for too long.
Love wakes up at night
when the mice in the dugout crawl
under its field coat.
Sometimes, love vomits long in the
trees after heavy combat.
Every now and then, it closes the eyes of
its friends.
Love wraps them up in sleeping bags
and carries them away.
Love never fails!
But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For sometimes, the shelling is over,
and friends close Love’s eyes,
wrap it up in a sleeping bag,
and carry it away.
And then it passes to the living.
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