Traitor

1

I feel that soon

You'll easily betray me,

You'll leave without extra arguments,

Pushing doubts aside.

You'll find a logical reason,

To take this step,

And a fabricated pretext

Will close the way back.

Bridges of empathy will burn,

That served a hundred years,

Palaces of sympathy will fall,

Leaving a pale trace

Of a foolish romance

From moldy days.

On wings of deception

To your new world swiftly

You'll rush away, to forget,

Closing your eyes to everything,

To reconcile with the break,

Faster, bolder, there,

Where the past will dim,

Will melt like a mirage.

A new connection will arise,

Will melt with fire

Our shared beginning —

A talentless stain,

All that crowned us

And was destined.

Away with photo albums —

The connecting thread!

Of emails, phones

Replace the passwords.

You'll want it to ripen

An airy lie,

For memory to go numb,

And my patronymic

To dissolve in the darkness,

To scatter across the world,

For the name to crumble

And to be found no more…

2

A pitch-black day will come,

And you will betray me.

From ardent feelings a shadow remains,

Do not preserve the warmth.

The ill-fated moment is not frightening,

The frightening grimace,

I understood long ago that it arose

And brightly flared up

In your soul, a different fire,

Burning my features.

In the future, I won't be with you,

Vain dreams.

3

Luring with the madness of scents,

The enchantress-spring will fly in.

You will renounce me.

But I am ready, and you are free

In the grip of spiritual emptiness

To commit a fateful act.

You'll plunge into the abyss from the heights —

The finale will not follow you.

You will lose a hundredfold.

You'll send life off the rails, to the bottom.

Love knows no duplicate —

You will betray only yourself.