Life
Greetings to all of you who left us!
Translated from Uzbek · Original text
Greetings to all of you who left us!Having left us, may your sorrows be over!If we stood as an obstacle to your happiness,May your happiness without us be complete forever!If we have ever hurt your hearts,If we have walked your street without knowing,Here, we have laid our head upon your block,Find comfort, perhaps, by chopping off this rebel's head.If we told the truth about those faults you saw,Compared to the others, they're like virtues.Did you consider us bad? You're right, my friend,We're a thousand times worse than you say!..Come on, then, kick, beat, smear blackOn this face that stands so white — that's the right thing.Stone us, hang us on the gallows, fine,Know that the heart will never grieve over this.Indeed, we deserve such reproach,If only we had just wept and never once laughed!We could not be as good as you, after all,If only we hadn't been born, hadn't been among you!But helpless… we came into this world,We go on breathing, feebly…Let a few moments pass, friends, wait a little,Once we have spent our time in poverty;Then we will leave the face of the earth to you,When the world grows a little roomier without us,The things that are lacking will be made whole,Once a pauper like us withdraws his hand from this world.Greetings to the forlorn who stayed with us!You are the true heroes; nobility is yours!We cannot stand ourselves at all,How do you put up with us! Thank you!
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