~ Something Miraculous Will Come...something we have longed for..."

 “The Flying Carpet (1880)

Artist – Victor Vasnetsov (1884 – 1926).  The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

~ Everything ~

Everythings looted, betrayed and traded,

black deaths wings overhead.

Everythings eaten by hunger, unsated,

so why does a light shine ahead?

By day, a mysterious wood, near the town,

breathes out cherry, a cherry perfume.

By night, on Julys sky, deep, and transparent,

new constellations are thrown.

And something miraculous will come

close to the darkness and ruin,

something no-one, no-one, has known,

though we've longed for it since we were children.

Anna Achmatova