Осколки лета [Oskolki leta] [English translation]

I don't know where,

I don't know how

This ribbon has broken

And happiness has got lost somewhere.

I can't understand

Where my white dawns

Have been washed away.

And you have been

Nowhere and everywhere.

And you have carried

The whole world in one hand.

And the smell of roses

That you have thrown in vain

Has been spread across the Earth by the wind.

I don't know why

Every day I have searched

At least a shadow,

At least an echo in the distance.

And in the fresh blanket of snow

I have searched

The pieces of summer.

I don't know where,

I don't know how

To swim across this river

And to live on.

I can't understand

What God wants

From a simple man.

And you have been

Nowhere and everywhere.

And you have carried

The whole world in one hand.

And the smell of roses

That you have thrown in vain

Has been spread across the Earth by the wind.

I don't know why

Every day I have searched

At least a shadow,

At least an echo in the distance.

And in the fresh blanket of snow

I have searched

The pieces of summer.