“We are perfectly matched” by Robert Rozhdestvensky – love poetry – #shorts

Robert Rozhdestvensky dedicated "We are perfectly matched" poem to his wife and muse Alla Kireeva. At the end of his life, the poet called her a co-author of almost everything that he wrote. Full text below.

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Robert Rozhdestvensky (June 20, 1932 – August 19,1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s and, along with few other poets of his time, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer style of poetry in the Soviet Union.
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Translated by Alec Vagapov

We've been getting along since the moment
we'll remember a whole life long;
just like words go with lips and like water
goes with thirst, we're getting along.
Like the sky goes with birds, and the ground
Goes with snow when winter's around
(we've been waiting for it so long),
that's the way we are getting along.
We were matched knowing
nothing about
what was good in this life, what was bad,

and the calendar time has for ever
coincided with us at that.

(1973)

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