The Russian Man
Tribute to the Head of the DNR
Alexander Zakharchenko

By Vladimir Zakharov
(Rostov-on-Don- Russia) 
 
Astonished, standing,
The strings of my voice are raspy:
How are you, Sasha in paradise? 
Rest. You fought enough. 
 
Sad. You left. Forever. 
No need to announce your rank,
Only one phrase can be added, 
You were the Russian, heroic man.  
 
The soul is boiling
Among who baptized by bullets –
How many of you are there, 
Not avenged yet? 
 
How many lined up solders 
Will sing with pain?
How was your entrance in paradise, Sash,
With bread and salt?
 
Free for another epoch
And also your own land;
Zakharchenko is a high etiquette, 
The true servant of God.

Written on August 31, 2018 
 
Translated on September 4, 2018.
By Tatiana V. Pahlen

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