A Double Life by Barbara Heldt

Author:Barbara Heldt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCO014000, Literary Collections/Russian & Former Soviet Union, FIC019000, Fiction/Literary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

First Voice:

The yoke of Earth’s constraints

She did not bear on Earth,

Did not fall prey to doubt,

Did not take fright in the battle.

She loved sorrowfully and passionately,

Believing in the love of others,

And waited to the end in vain,

And hoped until the end.

Second Voice:

Why murmur against eternal laws?

Why not recognize the limits of the possible?

Groans are no substitute for holy labor,

Life is better than dreams and truth higher than lies.

Who is to blame that she had not the strength

To face the path, measure its steepness,

Not expect miracles, understand people from the first

And count only on herself!

Why, meeting deception every day,

Did she not renounce false faith

And why in the ruinous alchemy of the soul

Did she squander its store of wealth?

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