Стихи

        Что там?
        Тьма без времени и воли…

Old Don Juan

(Shabby room in the inn).

Don Juan:

        Curse! Endless drumming!
        Dreadful nights of nothing in a
        Wretched dwelling! Catalina!

Catalina

(enters):

        Coming!

Don Juan:

        At last! Your gentle
        Gaze falls on the truly loving!
        Draw some closer to the candle.
        Let my suffering have merit!
        Hold my hand and…

Catalina:

        Quit it! How unbecoming
        Of your age.

(Proceeds to exit)

Don Juan:

        She flees my torment!
        Eve incarne, wicked gender!
        Rather choosing youthful servant,
        Gladly ready to befriend her.
        Evenings spent with boring infants,
        Leaving passion unrequited!
        What's the body's purpose if its
        Freshness has forever withered?
        Mirror, hide this disappointment!
        Wrinkled skin, teeth's rare count!
        Hair no longer fragrant!

        (Drops the mirror to the ground).
        Stubbornness to leave arena
        Battles our feeble conscience.
        Every Helen, every Venus
        Leave us for seductive servants.
        No substance can be soothing,
        Only youth enraptured matters
        For a whore of highest schooling,
        Or a slut, derived from masses.
        Aging — what an inhibition!
        I have been reduced to torpor
        By the rotten contradiction
        Of the content and its cover…
        Joys of living should be youthful
        Even if you in the process
        Are unkind, uncouth, untruthful.
        Aging — that's the worst of tortures!
        Vengeful Lord, in your destruction
        Don't punish twice but rather
        Crush the longing for seduction,
        Take away the drives for pleasure!
        Lusty serenades! Erotic
        Urges by the moonlight dancing!
        Why have you become despotic
        On the verge of slow passing?
        Thus, my ties with wicked gender
        Mark an end. Thus ends an era!
        Catalina! Catalina!

(Enters Skull of the Commander)