M. Петровых. «Не плачь, не жалуйся..."/M.Petrovih "Don't cry, there's no need.."

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Images/Narration: Mila Gee
Music: Kevin Macleod "Anamalie"
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M.Petrovih "Don't cry, there's no need.."

Don’t cry: there is no need—do not complain.
Your tears are useless—they can’t help your plight.
At dawn there will be a reward to gain:
dawn’s reward for your long tormented night.

Throw off your blanket that’s as hot as fire.
Get up, put on the first dress you can find,
and go wherever your heart may desire.
A new day awaits you, leave night behind.

Then let the sun take possession of you,
surrender to the heat of this embrace.
Inside your eyes—sun’s sparkling residue,
a glow in your heart and then on your face.

When you give in to the sun completely,
your body flooded by powerful rays,
take it all in, then answer honestly:
have you been held in a hotter embrace?

Walk to the river, go in the water,
swim if you can and wash away night’s dust.
There’s no sense of freedom that is better,
and no bigger love that you can entrust.

Your heartache will be dissolved, I promise.
You’ll be no longer able to recall
when you have tasted a more gentle kiss
and sweeter than the water, if at all.

Again you’re desirable, beautiful;
it won’t be easy to shake off the spell
of those streaming hands , tender, powerful:
water’s hands that know your body so well.

And air? It’s with you till your dying day.
Be it harsh and dreary or soft and blue,
together you’ll at last happily stay:
you are breathing it, and it’s breathing you.

On the roof the rain will come to visit,
with his familiar song to you offbeat.
He weeps through the night and doesn’t hide it,
his lofty heart has no room for deceit.

There are so many forces loving you,
they’re waiting for you to call them your own.
That you’ve been spurned in love isn’t exactly true,
It is not true that you are all alone.

Don’t cry: there is no need—do not complain.
Your tears are useless—they can’t help your plight.
At dawn there will be a reward to gain:
dawn’s reward for your long tormented night.

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