Thursday, October 7, 2010

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin, 1895-1925

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness — furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.

Notes:

Written in his own blood, and given to a friend the day before he hanged himself, or so it is assumed.

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