Nefertiti

Whatever one may say,
do not twist
existed
Nefertiti.
She was once in the world onom
lived with some pharaoh,
but even if I lay with him,
it has belonged for centuries.
And he was suffering
from the appearance of possession.
He wore important
vestments.
He spoke
denunciations.
He strengthened his foundations,
but, as Avicenna noted,
in nature next to beauty
any power is defective.
And Pharaoh was tormented by a complex
inferiority ...
He crumpled
a napkin gloomy at dinner,
when I thought about it.
He had an army, chariots,
well, she is eyes, eyelashes,
and a forehead illuminated by stars,
and the neck arching astonished.
When they sailed in a stretcher,
then the glances of all those who were
turned, as if by a whim,
not to Pharaoh, to Nefertiti.
Pharaoh was sullen in affection
and made direct rudeness,
because I sensed the fragility of power
versus the power of this fragility.
And the sphinxes
slow
weathered
and beliefs were deadly verified,
but through ideas and events
through everything
in what time was deceived,
Nefertiti's neck stretched
and reached out to us today.
She -
in a boyish sketch
and the installer on the brooch.
She cleanses someone
without becoming boring,
without fading, -
and someone feels again
inferiority next to her.
We often get stuck in everyday life ...
And Nefertiti?
Nefertiti
through everyday life
events, persons, dates
everything is still stretching somewhere ...
Whatever one may do
do not twist
but there is
Nefertiti.

Evgeny Evtushenko