Anna Akhmatova

Here you will find the Poem Departure of poet Anna Akhmatova

Departure

Although this land is not my own, 
I will remember its inland sea 
and the waters that are so cold 
the sand as white 
as old bones, the pine trees 
strangely red where the sun comes down.

I cannot say if it is our love, 
or the day, that is ending.