Recently, I’ve seen a dream
When we travelled to 2019
And even if you still shy away
From showing me your face
I know it was you there with me
Even if I change mine each time
I’m in the beloved and hated dreamland
We’ve somehow both chosen Saint Petersburg
We both know well—maybe, even too well
You went calling your mom telling her everything’s okay
And I went out screaming it’s 2019
Breathing broad-chestedly, with relief
Thinking, it’s not even begun, it’s not even begun!
Back when I had one of my best friends
Whom I owe my stabilized self esteem
My self respect and my pride
Back when I had to hear the words
Let’s move out together, okay?
Back at the day you can’t name
Back when I had to fall in love with him
To become who I am now
Broken and twisted under the crashed shell,
I didn’t feel my wounds, still bleeding
Caressed by the cool Saint Petersburg wind
And you came back
We went through one park after another
Visiting some small museums
We missed in the favor of bigger fish
And one of such museums
Looked really strange:
I was at odd with its very atmosphere
It looked like the one at Petershof
But it’s always closed at summer
And we haven’t even gone to the suburbs yet
It had a fountain inside
With real blue water, just flowing, flowing
Trapped inside a loop, with sharp edges
And the door so blue as the sea grave
Started opening bit by bit, screeching
And the purple hand was coming through
Paralyzed, luckily we just got it
So just one stepped separated us
From even more rooms with gold and porcelain…
They appeared out of nowhere
As the mummy chasing us through
We’ve broken space-time continuum
I knew it, we were being punished
Punished by the Time herself
There seemed to be no entrance no way out
All was lost… When I woke up
Mummy staying blurry before my eyes
Our time travel being clearly in my brain
I tried to put up things together
And it was just the future we left behind
Or my present still chasing me through
Through my mind
Right from my sight