Sport 31: Spring 2003
Raisa Akhmatova's happiness
Raisa Akhmatova's happiness
Nothing in life came easy to me,
this pewter plaited through my hair
is my award for getting up in the morning
and sometimes even doing the dishes
and sometimes even speaking my mind.
I have had tantrums, oh I have had tantrums.
I won't draw up a list of sorrows
and pain; when I skid like a horse on ice
I'll get up, trot off, sto, ste, sto, ste.
It is the happiness that is hardest to bear.