Ihar Komar - A cherry-tree (poem by Knuts Skujenieks)

Julia Ostrovskaya (voice) Ivan Andrukhov (piano) Poem by Knuts Skujenieks (Latvia, Rīga): A cherry-tree trying to cover Its very last berry - That is me watching over My ragged shirt’s single button. When hopes and souvenirs are all gone, When the burden’s too heavy to bear, I make sure the button’s still on, The one that you stitched there. In spite of years and fears, In spite of snows and rows, To this hole-riddled life I am wed By the stitch of your love’s endless thread. Day has succumbed to night. I gaze At a single lit window. A window it’s not: there on my chest, ablaze, A life sewn in by you. Translated by: Ieva Lešinska.