No matter

No matter how much we chase after knowledge, We will never be able to get rid of our vices We want to look behind the fabric of the universe, So that we can take whatever we like from it We are not ashamed of our greed or our stupidity Our flesh is weak, and we always seek comfort Once we have betrayed someone, we keep repeating the same thing I'm sorry But once we have offended someone, we don't want to wait for forgiveness Our thoughts are always gray and pale A man has become a rag doll Looking askance, dissatisfied and harmful Like sheep, in search of grass withered It's all, alas, solid allegories And always changed at once the system of values Unnoticed we change the course of history Dissolve in the background of the world of transience And the world cracked in two - everyone sang 20 years ago And the cart is still there, no one is right or wrong You'll die, you'll start all over again, wrote Sasha Blok once And the grayness of everyday life hasn't disappeared, this is a life lesson I write, I sing, I read, I build I guess, I paint, I lift weights Even if you master a hundred professions, You'll still go down It's not because you're lazy, Or because God didn't give you any brains But because your health Doesn't have an unlimited supply, and don't argue with me Because we were all taught once that God was patient and told us to be patient Years have passed, everyone has forgotten, and the land has been redistributed Russia's punishing hand will assign everyone their place And the chronicles of Europe will begin anew