Kill Me! Poem by Alexander Romanov

The walls converge to a single point.
One step forward, and it's harder to breathe.
Kill me, throw me into the cauldron,
Dissolve me into soap.
Let me be soap,
And gently, shyly
Rub against a woman's body…
Kill me!

Saw my skull and set it on the floor,
Shake ash into the empty sockets.
And I will watch as you bend toward betrayal
Another man's wife.
Kill me!
Give me silence!
Kill me!

A sky of statutes and a sea of instructions,
A step aside is an attempt to escape.
Kill me! Tear me apart, send me to the kitchen!
Let me be meat—today's diet:
Today, a steak made from the one who writes these lines.
Kill me!

Someone will lift me from the spaghetti with a fork—
Even my flesh brings you no joy.
Then hang my body on a cross,
And pretend you don't care.
Kill me!
Give me paradise!

All power lies in incompetent hands.
A step aside is an attempt to escape…
Kill me!

Leaning on a windowsill,
Someone happy gazes outside.
While in the dark streets a thug violates
Young Spring…
Kill me!
Give me silence!
Kill me!

Throw me into the furnace of your locomotive,
Let me mix with the black coal!
I don't care about your threats of death!
Kill me!
Then we will live!
Kill me!