Marina Tsvetaeva
Ophelia to Hamlet
Hamlet, doubled up in thought,
a sickly shadow beneath his halo
of knowledge and doubts …
(When was that play published?)
I’m immune to your abuse and emptiness,
spawned from your festering, adolescent den,
you have already lain on this breast
like some weighty chronicle.
Chaste woman hater! (Why did they indulge
this absurd chosen one?) Did you once
think about what was plucked
from the small flower garden of madness …
Roses? … But – shh – that is surely the future.
We pick them and new ones grow. Did the roses
ever betray us? Did they betray lovers
and were there then less of them?
Having been fulfilled, having been fragrant you will drown,
never existed … But you will remember us,
at that moment when over the flowing river chronicle
Hamlet with all your intensity you come once more into being.
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