Aerograd

Stay in the dark struggling with fatigue.
This theatre is a ship.
The captain’s bridge an enigma.
What are we, all of us,
and where are we going?

Through the window you see the earth,
the air and the sea.
The Old Believers are fighting in and against your soul. How many ways there are to betray? There are so many ways just to live, and that is not a betrayal.
Maybe, one single makes a group,
the other one, maybe a single.
Outward enemies exist, as well as the inward ones.

Finally, the landing troops arrive.
The theatre, the ship, the captains’s bridge are sleepy.
Men and women, hand seeking hand.
The golden beams of night
fall gently over the Hietalahti Dock.
The crew leaves the ship, finding their way to the nearby pubs.
Friends will be executed.
Continents will be conquered.
The ship is waiting.
The engines will be started when the crew is sober.