Let's smile and exclaim...
by Bulat Okudzhava
Let's smile and exclaim, admire of each other,
The high words of the play we shouldn't scare, either.
Let's tell the compliments, and one after another -
Because of that they are the moments of loving.
Let's fall in grief and cry without any scare,
Together or alone, or in the alternation.
You shouldn't pay a sense to gossips and backbiting -
Because of grief itself is close to love charming.
Let's understand each one by half a word, and rather,
When we mistaken both, not to mistake the next time.
Let's live all our life, indulging to each other,
Because it is so short, you couldn't live another...
1975