KG’s Reviews > Eugene Onegin > Status Update

To you, G:

I was marked out for you from birth;
My life has been a precondition
For our encounter — which I crave;
I know you’re sent by God’s provision,
And you’re my guardian till the grave..
You came in dreams that soon abounded,
Even unseen, I treasured you.

Fond early on of reading novels,
For which all else she would forgo,

He loved, ah, as we cannot know it,
Today such love's anomalous,
Only the mad soul of a poet
Is still condemned to loving thus:
Always and everywhere one vision,
One customary, single mission,
One customary, single grief.

Another memory comes, revealing
A cherished dream in which I stand
Holding a happy stirrup... feeling
A tiny foot inside my hand.
Imagination seethes, excited,
Once more its contact has ignited
The blood within my withered heart,
Once more I love, once more I smart!