A Prayer

Boris Khersonsky

1996

Blessed art Thou, Lord, our God,
King of the Universe,
Who has kept us and protected us,
and supported us until this day
it would be better we had never seen.
You deprived us of nothing,
neither despair nor dejection,
nor monotonous dull hope.
You are always the same, Holy One,
and we few haven’t changed much, either.

Translated by
Ruth
Kreuz…
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Creator Bio

Boris Khersonsky

b. 1950

Poet and psychologist, Boris Khersonsky was born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine. He chairs the department of clinical psychology at Odessa National University and has written numerous books about that field. He began publishing poetry in the 1960s and during the next two decades was actively involved in samizdat poetry in Odessa. His first book of poetry appeared in 1993. He was poet laureate of the Kievski Lavrie Poetry Festival in 2008.

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