From this night on deception is exposed

Your ears will remain forever closed

To hear of the life’s despair

When you are nowhere near!

From this night on of love I thee deprive

The kind that everyone seeks in his life!

From this night on your heart will never feel

The joy of life that our wounds does heal!

The lilac’s scent, the Sun’s warm touch

When you’re far they don’t amount to much!

From this night on I will depart your life.

From this night on extinguished will be fire

That burned in lips who kissed you with desire!

From this night on your ears will fail to hear

My yearning to have and hold you near!

From this night on no man will claim my heart,

As dreams of love with it forever part.

From this night on peace be upon my heart

The side effect of tragic love’s depart!

From this night on beneath the starry skies

You’ll crave my lips as most cherished prize!

You’ll yearn for someone’s caring embrace

To hold you as a fragile crystal vase!

You’ll hunger for somebody’s tender love

To worship you as deity above!

Alas, the love like that you’ll fail to find,

Deep in my soul this love has quietly died!

From this night on all nights will longer last:

The paths of solitude and misery have crossed!

I’ll dwell in many souls across the land,

To never be forsaken by a friend!

By Liana Margiva

Translated from Russian by Anatol Kardiukov