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And I Said


And I said softly, “Come on in, you’ll be my guest tonight.”
You hung your coat, the way you do, upon the little spike.
I asked you, just like always, “So, what’s your plan now?”
And you replied that all around were fools and sellouts.

You said you try to be ideal in every setting —
At home, at work, each minor thing becomes a question
Of global scale. And only I can understand you:
The war inside your marriage, and the system’s pressure.

I knew it well — I’m rock, and friend, and crying shoulder;
I am the portrait of my own invented “false nature”;
I built a love delirium and let it blind me,
And you — so good, so innocent — were always blameless.

So many times I said goodbye to you in mind,
But every day the universe could fit inside
The space between us. I would break and then surrender —
I must have liked this tragic-comic kind of pattern.

You took your coat down from the nail — that brisk, familiar gesture —
The kind they make before an execution or an arrest.
You left the way you always did — your back collapsing inward —
But when you came, you’d burst in, glowing, flawless, like a showroom winner.

And then I said, just like I always do, “Good night now.
We make each other dizzy with our endless mind-games,
And that’s the fire we’re feeding, wild and reckless.”
And you replied, just like you always do, “Goodbye. See you tomorrow.”

© Valeriya Korennaya

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Judy

Песня здесь

   
The living always get more than they’re given —
A drunk will taste the sweetest water’s heaven,
He’ll roam the streets, slip into some old tavern,
And by a voice will find a heart that’s shattered —
A wounded fate that sounds a lot like his.
And drinking two-by-two, it feels much warmer,
The pain turns dull, no sharpness, no disorder —
Just quiet days that gently flow and drift.

In some reality far off wakes Judy;
Inside her world no dreams come bright or moody.
She brews her coffee strong, the way she likes it,
And runs ten copies through her printer — likeness
Of her, from youth, when hope was still a bracelet
That softly held her wrist with light and graces,
When simple joy seemed close enough to chase it,
And nothing in her life felt doomed or faithless.

And on the other side of all creation,
That drunk will push apart the walls that cage him.
On throwaway white plates he draws a woman —
A face like Judy’s, fragile, kind and human.
His drinking friends — his jury and advisers —
Admire the shape, declare him born a master,
Raise up a toast to genius ever after.
Thus twine their fates in tender, tangled fibres.

She doesn’t know her copied face has entered
Another life and quietly shaped its center —
A gifted man, a humble barroom dreamer,
Inside a shabby tavern, half a hermit,
Found on a piece of single-use cheap paper
The only woman he could ever treasure —
The one and only, sketched as if by nature,
The one who looked, if barely, just like Judy.

© Valeriya Korennaya

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24 Hours

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It feels like a day has gone by — not a decade,
we waited for sunrise, knew how to feel elated,
filled up our beings with secret fillings —
but is this leather worth all the skinnings,
when fates are so short, so swiftly they’re braided,
you cannot tell villains from judges they’ve shaded.
Years don’t arrive anymore, overrated —
they rush in a flood, like the waters unstated.

On waves lie no lambs — only stubborn old rams,
and lakes that were small turned to oceans again.
And down city streets walk Neanderthals pacing,
sand slips through fingers, the looms interlacing.
Streams of awareness chase echoes and theories —
homes are no nests, just apartments and drearies.
Beloved old city turned strange in a minute,
no law and no wind seem to hold any limit —
windows are shattered, and doors have been broken,
wild beasts burst in life, leaving terror unspoken,
blasting and tearing, assaulting and burning,
drowning won’t save even those who were turning.

Lines from a song stuck and tangled inside you,
nothing will happen, though loss may divide you —
split into atoms and carbon so hollow,
Nature won’t miss you, has no storm to follow,
ants or the people — to her it’s the same,
each leaves a mark in an emerald grain,
coal-dusted ashes, a petal of guessing
and someone’s small doodle in pocket still pressing,
dates like small notches or seedlings unrooted —
feels like a day has gone by — not a decade, refuted.

You barely breathed in when the out-breath came near you,
you never sorted what species drew fear through,
never decided if love takes or gives you,
cannot remember what moment uplifted you.
Numbers flash by with a short little flicker,
seems you could find them — one mouse-click is quicker —
that very year when your parents were living,
when you would dive off the cliff, unforgiving.
Surfaced — and centuries flew like a train,
station signboards have faded again.

Even the questions were never yet spoken,
craters appear not in soil but in tokens —
deep in the heart, like the rustle of paper,
pencil and crossword from evening’s old vapor.
Hour is a minute, a day is a sigh,
flutter of lashes, a breeze passing by.
Suddenly into forget-me-not’s blue you’re sinking —
a day has gone by — not a decade, just blinking.

 © Valeriya Korennaya

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