Painting “Weightless” by artist Anna Usacheva (92 × 73 cm)

There

You stand and watch.
You have to go there.
You try to glimpse something far away. Beautiful? Yes. But no one knows what lies beyond.
Still, you have to go there.
Where? Why? What awaits? Ahead — only questions, perhaps without answers.
Yet you have to go there.
Around you — words, wonder, support and judgment. Misunderstanding and envy.
Still, you have to go there.
To where none of that exists. You don’t know what it is, only that it’s different.
And you have to go there.
Fear, uncertainty, tears and joy. Everything new, unlike before.
And still — you have to go there.
You must pass through it, feel the weightlessness and dizziness,
to embrace a new world, a new ground, a new life.
You have to go there…

Dmitry Sitko