Anna Akhmatova
«Beauty terrible», - you say -
You nakinetsya lazy
Spanish shawl over her shoulders,
Red rose - in the hair.
«Beauty simple», - you say -
Colorful shawl awkwardly
You will protect the child,
Red rose - on the floor.
But, absently listening
all words, circle sounding,
You think about sad
And firmly to himself:
"Not terrible, and not just me;
I'm not so terrible, simply to
Kill; I was not so simple,
Not to know, how life is terrible ".
16 December 1913
