Dozhd'

Rain

Dozhd'

Rain draped the sky in a twinkling shroud. May's rain.Dozhd', zvonkoj pelenoj napolnil nebo majskij dozhd'.
Thunder hammered along the rooftops, scared all the cats away. Thunder.Grom, progremel po krysham, raspugal vseh koshek grom.
I opened the window, and a merry wind scattered everything on my desk -Ya otkryl okno, i veselyj veter razmetal vse na stole -
Silly poems that I wrote in a clammy and miserable emptiness.Glupye stihi, chto pisal ya v dushnoj i unyloj pustote.

May's thunder roared, and joy, in a sweeping, drunkening wave,Gryanul majskij grom i vesel'e burnoyu, p'yanyascheyu volnoj
Rolled over: "Hey, get up, and jump in after me!Okatilo. Ej, vstavaj-ka i poprygaj vsled za mnoj.
Get out into the yard and hop around the puddles till morning, if you want, -Vyhodi vo dvor i po luzham begaj hot' do samogo utra.
Look at how the funny, blessed children are running about.Posmotri kak nositsya smeshnaya i svyataya detvora.

Droplets on my face - it's only the rain, or maybe it's me crying;Kapli na litse - eto prosto dozhd', a mozhet plachu eto ya.
The rain cleansed everything, and my soul, sobbing, suddenly felt soaked through, -Dozhd' ochistil vse i dusha zahlyupav, i vdrug razmokla u menya.
It rolled down in a creek, away from home and towards the sunny, unsown plains,Potekla ruch'em proch' iz doma k solnechnym nekoshenym lugam.
Turning into vapor, it flew with the wind towards unknown, undiscovered worlds.Prevrativshis' v par, s vetrom poletela k neizvedannym, nevedomym miram.

And then I imagined: the city suddenly filled with merry people.I predstavil ya: gorod navodnilsya vdrug veselymi lyud'mi.
Everyone came out into the rain and sang, and laughed… dammit!...Vyshli vse po dozhd', skoro chto-to peli, i plyasali, chert voz'mi.
Having forgotten about all shame, and the possibility to fall sick with complications,Pozabyv pro styd i opasnost' posle s oslozhnen'em zabolet',
The people in the rain greeted thunder like fireworks; the very first spring thunder.Lyudi pod dozhdem, kak salyut, vstrechali grom - vesennij pervyj grom.