If This Love Only Knew

If this love only knew

That without any rest

We can walk in the thoughts like in bottomless dreams.

If this love only knew,

Tender lines can’t express

All the feelings, which pour from my heart like spring beams.

If this love only knew,

In the chest my heart beats

Like a pigeon that thumps in a closed window pane.

If this love only knew

What is destined to be,

That together in dreams or in life we will stay.

If this love only knew

The nectarous flame

That incinerates me, lending wings with its glow.

If this love only knew

You and me for a day,

Then to us it would never agree to say no.

translated by Irina Illarionova