Original
Чи пізно ?
Навіщо ти любиш мене,Тоді, коли я вже...А коли добивався тебе,Ти запитувала: „Де?”
„Де любов? – покажиЯ не бачу її,Цієї любові. А – га ! розкажи...– Це все мрі..і..ї ”
Ти мене винила в тому,Що я не люблю тебе.І не раз повертався додому,Промовляючи до небес:
Translation
Is It Too Late?
Why do you love menow, when I already…And when I was winning you,you would ask: "Where?"
"Where is love? — show me,I don't see it,this love. A-ha! tell me…— It's all dre-e-eams."
You blamed mefor not loving you.And more than once I came back homesaying to the heavens:
About the poem
A dialogue of mistimed love, built out of sentences the speaker cannot finish: “when I already…” Once, courting her, he was told “Where is love? Show me — I don’t see it. Aha! Tell me… it’s all dre-e-eams,” and went home saying to the sky that he loved her. Now she loves him, and he will not be silent: “I don’t want, don’t want, don’t want!” — though he will not forget her. The poem answers the untitled If you do not love me from the first section, where the same question, show me where love is, was his. What to do “when I already… no…” is left, deliberately, unsaid.