Anna Akhmatova

Here you will find thePoemEverythingof poet Anna Akhmatova

Everything

Everything?s looted, betrayed and traded, black death?s wing?s overhead. Everything?s eaten by hunger, unsated, so why does a light shine ahead? By day, a mysterious wood, near the town, breathes out cherry, a cherry perfume. By night, on July?s sky, deep, and transparent, new constellations are thrown. And something miraculous will come close to the darkness and ruin, something no-one, no-one, has known, though we?ve longed for it since we were children.