Dead Planet Poem by Liza Sud

DEAD PLANET

- Who are you, girl? It is dangerous to stay here!
What attracted you to the broken bridge over the dead river?
Cover with your small palm your surprised eyes,
or a severe hard ray will burn them blind!

Who are you, little girl in a white cotton dress?
In this world there is no air, no land, no water...
Where are you from here? You've got some business?
Get out as quickly as possible, until you meet a misfortune!


LIVING MEMORY

- I'm looking for childhood - a world that was woven of joy! ..
and I search for the beach of the river, where I with my mom
together lie carelessly, and we watch a small skiff...
In this boat - my dad with a fishing tackle catches a bream...

Here I and my daddy are sitting on stumps in a forest.
And a little bit further in a brook a spring water gurgles.
And dad says to me: 'Drink of this water, my daughter,
and then you'll remain healthy and will stay young always! .. '

DEAD PLANET

- It is not the right time! You may not now drink a spring water!
I am dead and pernicious: the ground, water, the air..
representatives of the human race gave me a poison!
So get out as quickly as possible! Leave me forever!

LIVING MEMORY

- I can not go away, because I'm - the living memory,
and not subject to death of seven billion people! ..
I distinctly remember I was here, had fun, spent time playfully,
and under the shade of the forest of poplars were children.

SHADOW:

- You did not recognize me, the planet? I'm - the shadow of Fukushima.
I was floating over your ocean and firmament of yours.
Me and you - we are - one. And I never could be parted with you..

DEAD PLANET:

- Go away! seven billion of deaths - and the guilt here is totally yours!


SHADOW:

- So, you think it's my fault? .. I'm responsible for all this terror? ..
And, let's, let us recall who made us! Who was there to create?
It's your children. Your children possessed by the devil! ..
Godless mind has become the forerunner of the Judgment Day!

It was he who has poisoned you by poison of science knowledge
and disdainfully looking at your cooling corpse,
showing how he really is just pathetic and stupid -
pulled on his head the crown of the King of the whole universe,

DEAD PLANE:

- Well, and you...

SHADOW:

- Well, I am just his own generation,
and escaped from the cage as a test subject furious dog.
I'm your deadly disease that infected the whole population,
and then finally, gave you a bite as a small final stroke.

Dead Planet:

- You're probably right. All that happened according to God's will.
And I think they deserved this dramatic finale...

SHADOW:

- Well, good-bye. I will go. I'm - the underworld's guardian,
and to you just like that, in a break for a while I have ran.

SOUL:

- Revive! Revive! Revive us! To you we plea!
The underworld is so hot, and we want to drink! ..

THE LIVING MEMORY:

- Do not torment me! I'm all alone - the living memory!
It is not in my power - I am not ressurecting you!
I love you very much! You are - my foolish children!
Only this fragile world I am no more redeeming.

you gave a mortal wound to a miserable planet
because you went astray, you finally lost our way...

SOUL:

- However, the torch of science lit our way!
He led us in the dark on the twisting paths of the fate!
THE LIVING MEMORY

- You were trying too hard to know the Universe and
finally, you forgot to prepare your own coffins.
Your bones lie powedered by nuclear dust.
Swept by the wind on their stones, hot, black...

you believe in a fairy tale, but faced a terribly wound! ..
Do not ask me to save you! Do not torture me now!
How many different galaxies yet I have to fly around!
And which of them would agree simply to give me a haven? ..

I longingly look at the sinister red sun -
the blazing mark of the DoomDay that is near to come...

TWO CONFESSION (Instead of an epilogue)


I'm bored... (Confession of Freon)

I am alone. I brought everything to destruction.
I left here neither dead nor alive.
I ripped off the planet its precious 'ozone hide'
as form bovine carcasses highly experienced butcher.

I was imprisoned by people in fridges - agregates,
but I rebelled and killed the whole world.
I deserved that this planet calls me a curse!
By me in its atmosphere so many 'holes' were made!

I joined the battle with the earthly humanity
and immediately won...
Now, I'm bored... mood swings in variety...
Oh, how fast, I dealt with the whole Earth? ..

Well that's all... (Confessions of a mobile phone)

This is it. I am alone in the desert,
once called the Earth.
Yes. I am alone, all alone forever.
No one could beat me first.

I was ruthless! I did not spare children
and adults were not spared... To spare until? ..
What am I up to their deaths, the billions? ..
What is for me their tears, moans, painful thrills? ..

I'm arranged so! And I could never help!
Yes. I'm electro-killer! What is it to me then? ..
To none of you I promised a salvation.
But I wanted the world never lose my rememberance!

Why did I incinerate his memory? ! ..
I'm - a Conductor! and I conduct the planet! ..
On the 'first violin' I simply snapped the string,
softened the cane at the 'First Clarinet'.

from the 'First Flute' saliva is dripping away...
You think that I'm fragile, small, don't make a big sense...
No! You are mistaken! I'm great! Great! ..
I have destroyed the human race.


To them I showed my cruel face.

Elephant

Female elephant beget a small one,
at the zoo, where all could see well.
he brushed off his mucus and eukaryotes...
He did not know - he was born in hell.

And he looked at the antenna towers,
by which now all roofs are adorned.
He did not care, silly, or wondered
for our wireless and mobile calls,

to the countless benefits of Inet:
correspondence, payments and dating...
didn't know: the Earth is overheated
and that life is impossible here.


Translation of a POEM by Smirnov Alexander