Why Are You So Aghast? Poem by Janri Gogeshvili

Why do your lips quiver?
Why are you so sad and aghast?
Why are you discouraged by despair?
Despair has captured your heart.

The moon is hidden, a monster has come,
The earth quakes, seas reach the skies.
The sun hasn’t set, just stock-still it is,
And the groundless fears rise…

What do you know of winds and showers?
Who asks you why the snowflakes flit?
Who asks you why the breeze blows,
And how it waves those skirts?

The heavenly end of planets,
Earthquakes, floods and winds…
All that is justified and reasoned:
Cod washes away our sins…

Why do your lips quiver?
Why are you so sad and aghast?
Don’t let the cheap doubt defeat you,
Don’t be afraid… take heart!

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Translated from Georgian